Posted: Feb 14, 2019 5:13 pm
by Jayjay4547
Cito di Pense wrote:
Jayjay4547 wrote:the radial velocities of stars in galaxies aren't behaving as expected


Hmmm. Radial velocities. Yes, JJ, you sure do know your celestial mechanics. My advice: Stick to surveying the landscape.

You sneer at whatever you weren't familiar with before. Take a look at the Wikipedia entry on Galaxy Rotation Curve

"The rotation curve of a disc galaxy (also called a velocity curve) is a plot of the orbital speeds of visible stars or gas in that galaxy versus their radial distance from that galaxy's centre. It is typically rendered graphically as a plot, and the data observed from each side of a spiral galaxy are generally asymmetric, so that data from each side are averaged to create the curve. A significant discrepancy exists between the experimental curves observed, and a curve derived from theory. The theory of dark matter is currently postulated to account for the variance"