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Galaxy Sans Dark Matter
ChromaticDragon writes "Astronomers have crunched some numbers on a galaxy to discover that its rotation can be fully explained by the gravity of the observable matter — in effect, this galaxy seems to lack dark matter. This shouldn't come as a total surprise given that one of the stronger observations of Dark Matter was the
Bullet Cluster where supposedly a good deal of Dark Matter and good old fashion regular matter had separated."
Yeah.. guess what guys! We just discovered this awesome stuff called Dark Matter! Really? Yeah... Can we see it? um.... it doesn't exist in this galaxy.
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Everyone gets all idiotic about dark matter. It's not some magical, physics breaking, mysterious subject. It's matter with no light shining on it. It's there and it's normal, we just can't see it. It's really as simple as that. It could be that this galaxy without any isn't old enough to have black holes without acresion disks (invisible matter aka dark matter) or nuetron or brown stars or whatever and thus we can see everything. The simplest solution is the correct one without further evidence. The rest is BS made up for TV ratings and term papers and grant money.
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Dark matter is the same as epicycles. It's total garbage. The original calculations of galactic rotation used _Newton's_ equations! That is why they came up with answers at odds with observation. They completely ignored General Relativity, the accepted law of gravitation. This has been pointed out many times. Dark matter doesn't exist.