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The 75 pages that link to Dark matter, each with the reason it gives.

• General relativityRelated: Its gravitational influence is commonly modeled using general relativity, while its nature remains unknown.

• Standard ModelRelated: No known Standard Model particle accounts for the dominant dark matter in the universe.

• Galaxy clusterRelated: It supplies most of a cluster’s mass and helps hold the system together.

• Dark matter haloNarrower topic: A halo is a gravitationally bound structure made primarily of dark matter.

• Gravitational lensingRelated: Lensing maps mass whether or not that mass shines.

• Big BangRelated: Its abundance shaped structure formation, but its physical identity remains unknown.

• GravityRelated: Its presence is inferred from gravity’s influence on galaxies and cosmic structure.

• Virial theoremRelated: Virial mass estimates for galaxy clusters reveal more gravitating matter than luminous matter supplies.

• CosmologyRelated: Its gravitational pull helps form galaxies and large-scale structure.

• Particle physicsRelated: No Standard Model particle accounts for the gravitational evidence for dark matter.

• GalaxyRelated: Its gravity helps explain how galaxies hold together and how their rotation behaves.

• Galaxy rotation curveNarrower topic: Flat rotation curves are among the clearest galactic-scale evidence for it.

• Gravitational fieldRelated: Unexplained gravitational fields in galaxies and clusters motivate evidence for this component.

• Large-scale structure of the universeRelated: Its gravitational wells guided ordinary matter into the web's structure.

• AntimatterCompared with: It is not simply antimatter; its composition and relation to known particles remain uncertain.

• Gravitational lensRelated: Lens distortions map mass that emits too little light to see directly.

• Modified Newtonian dynamicsCompared with: It explains galaxy rotation by adding unseen mass rather than modifying dynamics.

• Women in astronomyRelated: Vera Rubin’s galaxy-rotation observations supplied influential evidence for its existence.

• Coma ClusterRelated: Its gravitational contribution helps account for the motions of Coma's galaxies.

• Galactic CenterCompared with: A dark-matter explanation competes with unresolved stellar sources for the gamma-ray excess.

• ATLAS experimentRelated: ATLAS searches for collision signatures of particles that could account for dark matter.

• Cold dark matterNarrower topic: Cold dark matter is one proposed physical form of this broader gravitationally inferred component.

• Dwarf galaxyNarrower topic: Dwarf galaxies are useful laboratories for testing the nature and distribution of dark matter.

• Fritz ZwickyRelated: Zwicky inferred unseen cluster mass from galaxy motions, an early argument for dark matter.

• Primordial black holeRelated: Primordial black holes have been proposed as a component of dark matter.

• Cosmic voidRelated: It dominates the mass distribution whose underdense regions form voids.

• Baryonic matterCompared with: Unlike baryonic matter, most dark matter is not made of known atomic constituents.

• Great AttractorRelated: Unseen matter contributes to the mass shaping galaxy motions in the attractor region.

• Bullet ClusterNarrower topic: The offset between gas and lensing mass supports a dominant, collisionless matter component.

• Galactic haloNarrower topic: Halo studies provide some of the strongest evidence for dark matter.

• GravitationRelated: Its gravitational influence is observed, but its physical identity remains unknown.

• Laniakea SuperclusterRelated: Its distribution supplies much of the mass shaping Laniakea's gravitational landscape.

• Shapley SuperclusterRelated: Dark matter supplies much of the mass that binds the supercluster's clusters and galaxies.

• Stellar dynamicsRelated: Unseen mass can shape stellar motions even though it is not itself part of the stellar population.

• AxionNarrower topic: Axions could account for some or all of the universe’s dark matter.

• Carnegie Institution for ScienceRelated: Carnegie astronomer Vera Rubin’s galaxy studies strengthened evidence for its existence.

• Matter (physics)Compared with: It may dominate cosmic matter while differing sharply from familiar particle matter.

• Modified gravityRelated: Some modified-gravity proposals also seek to explain phenomena attributed to dark matter.

• Triangulum GalaxyNarrower topic: The halo inferred around M33 is part of the broader dark-matter problem.

• Dark Energy SurveyRelated: Its distribution shapes lensing signals and the growth of DES structures.

• Fundamental interactionRelated: Its particle identity and possible non-gravitational interactions remain unknown.

• Palomar ObservatoryRelated: Zwicky’s Palomar studies of the Coma Cluster supplied early evidence for unseen mass.

• Vera RubinNarrower topic: The unexpectedly high outer rotation speeds imply more gravitating mass than the visible galaxy supplies.

• Fermi Gamma-ray Space TelescopeRelated: Fermi searches for gamma-ray signatures that some dark-matter models predict.

• Local VoidRelated: Its distribution helps determine how nearby overdensities and underdensities developed.

• Missing baryon problemCompared with: The missing-baryon problem concerns ordinary matter, not the much larger dark-matter component.

• Astronomical objectRelated: Its physical nature is unknown despite its gravitational influence on galaxies and clusters.

• Minimal Supersymmetric Standard ModelNarrower topic: A stable lightest neutralino can provide a particle candidate for the cosmic dark matter.

• Outer spaceRelated: Its gravity helped form the large-scale structures that organize matter in space.

• Subaru TelescopeRelated: Subaru’s weak-lensing surveys map dark matter through its influence on galaxy images.