Dark Matter is Slowing Down the Milky Way @scishowspace

Dark Matter is Slowing Down the Milky Way @scishowspace

Uploaded June 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

The effects of dark matter on galaxies is a mystifying and difficult thing to study, but the Milky Way's galactic bar might present an exciting way to quantify how much of it exists!

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