ninkendo 2 days ago

Also, galaxy spirals are very much an open question. Galaxies don’t rotate the way you’d expect from the matter you see, and it’s the main reason we hypothesize the existence of dark matter. Unless dark matter is the reason the Oort Cloud develops spiral arms, I’d wager the mechanisms are quite different.

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awongh 2 days ago

> Galaxies don’t rotate the way you’d expect from the matter you see

In what way?

gosub100 1 day ago

Given the stars' angular velocity, they should fly out away from the galactic center, but they stay confined to their disc.