Five Reasons We Think Dark Matter Exists

Ethan Siegel
Starts With A Bang!
10 min readAug 19, 2014

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No other idea explains even two of these.

Image credit: NASA / CXC / ESO WFI / Magellan composite.

Any recent article about the remaining mysteries of the Universe will include dark matter close to the very top of the list of unsolved problems. What is it? Where is it? And if it’s there, how do we measure it? These are important questions still at the forefront of…

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Ethan Siegel
Starts With A Bang!

The Universe is: Expanding, cooling, and dark. It starts with a bang! #Cosmology Science writer, astrophysicist, science communicator & NASA columnist.