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If the Newtonian inverse-square law is an appropriate description of gravity, then disk galaxies, and the Milky Way in particular, contain large amounts of dark matter: in general, the observed shapes of rotation curves do not correspond to the gravitational potential of the observed stars and gas. The nature of this dark matter is still a topic of debate, the outcome of which will have important consequences for our ideas of how galaxies and larger structures in the universe formed.
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Kuijken, K. (1995). Dark Matter in the Milky Way. In: van der Kruit, P.C., Gilmore, G. (eds) Stellar Populations. International Astronomical Union / Union Astronomique Internationale, vol 164. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0125-7_18
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