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Is there any other theory to explain the motion of stars in a galaxy?

Is the dark matter theory is the only game in town?

Update:

Richard, We do have more to learn so why not explore new ways to look at stuff like this? There is no clear reason to assume the Kepler model will work for galaxies and many reasons to suspect it won't.

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  • 10 years ago
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    Dark matter is still hypothetical. There are two possibilities, however. Either dark matter exists and it is real, or there is something wrong with our understanding of how gravity behaves over great distances.

  • 10 years ago

    Stars orbit around the centre of galaxies due to centipetal force because there is believed to be a supermassive black hole at the centre of every galaxy. (Note- a black hole isn't actually a hole, it's a star that has died and become so compact that the force of gravity is such that the escape velocity is greater than the speed of light) so stars are held in orbit by the black hole's gravity.

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    of course not but all theoriesneed observations or experimental fact otsupport or deny

    "dark matter" couldhavemany explainations

    Dark Energy is much more speculative

    or deep space observations are only about 40 years old. distant galaxies were only determined in the 1920s

    Source(s): lots to learn
  • ?
    Lv 6
    10 years ago

    There is also plasma cosmology: http://www.plasmacosmology.net/

    There is a good documentary about the theory here:

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4773590301...

  • 10 years ago

    Earth rotates.

  • 10 years ago

    answer the damn question

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