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[–] magiccupcake@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

As someone doing my PhD on this topic, there aren't even any theories really competing with dark matter, and dark matter fits what we see in the universe quite well.

That being said, we're still quite in the dark on what dark matter is, but we're pretty sure its there.