Distribution and proportion of dark matter in galaxies

Ranku · Mar 27, 2010

I read that the distribution and proportion of dark matter to regular matter is different for regular-size galaxies and dwarf galaxies. Could you guys elaborate on that?

libbon · Apr 1, 2010

the theory is that dark matter could cover 99 percent of our universe, but today i don't think we know much about it relative to regular matter.

nickthrop101 · Nov 6, 2010

I thought it covered 96%

Chimps · Nov 8, 2010

It could be a lot less depending on how innaccurate our theories are.

We don't really know for sure how gravity works on larger scales.

Distribution and proportion of dark matter in galaxies

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