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[โ€“] four@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wouldn't that mean that that force would be stronger on the edges of the galaxies, instead of the center? I imagine this is something we could figure out

That's a popular hypothesis, that "dark matter" is actually an envelope surrounding galaxies rather inside of them.