Dark matter: How does it explain a star's speed? - Don Lincoln
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All the stars in a spiral galaxy rotate around a center -- but to astronomers, the speed that each star travels wasn't making sense. Why didn't stars slow down toward the edges as expected? Don Lincoln explains how a mysterious force called dark matter is (possibly) the answer -- and why the search for an answer matters.
Every day physicists learn more about our universe by probing deeper and deeper into space. If you were a physicist, what questions would you want to try to answer?
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