Cosmic Exploration · discovery
Flat Galaxy Rotation Curves
1978 · Vera Rubin
- Year
- 1978
Description
Stars at the edges of spiral galaxies orbit as fast as those near the centre, which Newtonian gravity forbids unless most of the mass is invisible. This is what turned dark matter from a curiosity into a crisis.
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