Vast Web of Dark Matter Mapped

Looking longer and longer by the day. Aether was invented because people felt it SHOULD exist, but expected consequences of it completely failed to show up. Dark matter was invented because there were observations that are very hard to explain any other way and fit increasingly precisely with one another if dark matter is the cause -- there are several different ways of measuring the distribution of dark matter among various clusters of galaxies, and they are giving remarkably consistent answers.

A better example would be phlogiston, which was invented to explain observations, but eventually failed to explain all observations, so it was replaced by a better theory. The same could happen to dark matter, but there are no signs at the moment,

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