Is dark matter’s “nightmare scenario” true?

<p>There&rsquo;s an enormous puzzle to the Universe, and it&rsquo;s one that might remain puzzling for a long time: dark matter. For generations, now, it&rsquo;s been recognized that the known law of gravity, Einstein&rsquo;s General Relativity, combined with the matter and radiation that&rsquo;s known to exist in the Universe &mdash; including all the particles and antiparticles described by the Standard Model of physics &mdash; doesn&rsquo;t add up to describe what we see. Instead,&nbsp;<a href="https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/5-truths-dark-matter/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">on a variety of cosmic scales</a>, from the insides of individual galaxies to groups and clusters of galaxies all the way up to the largest filamentary structures of all, an additional source of gravity is required.</p> <p>It&rsquo;s possible that we&rsquo;ve got the law of gravity wrong, but if that&rsquo;s the problem, it&rsquo;s wrong&nbsp;<a href="https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/modifying-gravity/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">in an extremely complicated way</a>&nbsp;that also seems to require an additional source of matter (or something that behaves equivalently). Instead,&nbsp;</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/is-dark-matters-nightmare-scenario-true-395381d984b"><strong>Visit Now</strong></a></p>