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It is true that it has never been observed and is hypothetical.

However, we have observations which break the rules. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_rotation_curve

The thing to me, why do we assume kepler's law applies to galaxies? It has only been proven in relation to the solar system. Perhaps it has been proven to work for the exoplanets in other systems?

Also what exactly is dark matter? Is it some exotic unproven god or is it just dust, hydrogen that just doesnt glow or light up?

What about our observations are just wrong? What if we haven't adjusted our observations for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Interstellar_Cloud and thusly we are slightly off because of some latent glow from the local cloud? Or perhaps even going further and being in some transition to the neighbour cloud is throwing observations off.



There are multiple independent lines of evidence for DM. Your questions would be answered by reading the Wikipedia article on Dark Matter:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter


Dark matter is a hypothetical form of matter thought to account for approximately 85% of the matter in the universe.[1]

We dont have the answers for anything here.


> We dont have the answers for anything here.

This very clearly must hold true for any "we" which refuses to read past the first line of an encyclopedia article.




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