Starship Asterisk*

It is. The "halo" is actually a "blob". Then why keep calling it a "halo" if that's not the true alleged characterization of its distribution? Because it's too uniformly distributed. It's been suggested that the local density of dark matter is an order of magnitude or ...

The orbital speed of any individual star depends on the total mass inside its orbit. That being accepted, why when modeling dark matter in galaxies is the majority of that dark matter in a distant "halo"? Why would this gravitationally interacting "invisible" matter not be distr...