If you want to get rid of the concept of dark matter, a 2020 study finds, you’ll need to replace it with something even more bizarre. ScienceMagArchives
Dark matter, the invisible stuff whose gravity is thought to hold galaxies together, may be the least satisfying concept in physics. But if you want to get rid of it, a new study finds, you'll need to replace it with something even more bizarre: a force of gravity that, at some distances, pulls massive objects together and, at other distances, pushes them apart. The analysis underscores how hard it is to explain away dark matter.
According to cosmologists' prevailing theory, dark matter pervades pretty much every galaxy, providing the extra gravity that keeps stars from swirling out into space, given the speeds at which astronomers see the galaxies rotating. A vast web of clumps and strands of the stuff served as the scaffolding on which the cosmos developed. Yet, after of decades of trying,, and many would happily dismiss the idea—if it didn't work so well.
But to do away with dark matter, theorists would also need explain away its effects on much larger, cosmological scales. And that is much harder, argues Kris Pardo, a cosmologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and David Spergel, a cosmologist at Princeton University.
The strange behavior is required to explain how the larger baryon acoustic oscillation faded over cosmic time while the smaller galaxies emerged, Pardo says. Just as Milgrom did with individual galaxies, the new work shows how, without dark matter, gravity would have to change to explain the universe's large-scale structure, Dodelson says. But that change would have to be radical, he says."They're demonstrating that to do that you have to jump through these 13 hoops," he says.
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