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by nostrebored 1406 days ago
> There aren't really any satisfactory alternatives to dark matter (given current models)

Dark Matter is a fudge factor used to account for quite good, but still incomplete physical modeling.

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“Fudge factor” massively undersells it. For instance, measurements from the bullet cluster are quite compelling that there is significant mass in a galaxy that we don’t directly measure. That’s the definition of dark matter.