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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.

• 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.

• 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.

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

• 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.

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

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

• 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.

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

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

• 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.

• 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.

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

• 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.

• Low surface brightness galaxyRelated: The low stellar light makes dynamical mass comparisons especially informative.

• Theory of everythingRelated: Its particle identity is unknown, leaving the Standard Model's inventory incomplete.

• Universe (cosmology)Related: Its identity is unknown, though its gravitational influence is central to cosmic structure.

• Extragalactic astronomyRelated: Its distribution helps explain galaxy rotation and the growth of cosmic structure.

• Modern physicsRelated: Its nature remains unexplained by the Standard Model of particle physics.

• Physical cosmologyRelated: Its gravitational influence shapes galaxy formation and the growth of cosmic structure.

• Space scienceRelated: Its physical identity remains unknown despite strong evidence for its gravitational influence.

• Chronology of the universeRelated: Its gravitational influence helped cosmic structures grow, though its identity remains unknown.

• Galactic astronomyRelated: Its distribution in the Milky Way remains uncertain despite its influence on stellar and satellite motions.

• Observational cosmologyRelated: Multiple observations require more gravitating matter than luminous matter supplies.

• Photon epochRelated: Nonrelativistic dark matter helped bring matter-radiation equality.

• Astronomical masses and mass distributionsRelated: It accounts for mass that galaxy motions and lensing reveal beyond luminous matter.

• Formation and evolution of stars and galaxiesRelated: Its gravitational halos provide much of the scaffolding for galaxy formation.

• Hypothetical particle physics modelsRelated: Many extensions propose new particles that could account for this unseen matter.

• Jim PeeblesRelated: Peebles’s calculations showed how unseen matter could help gravitationally build cosmic structure.

• List of unsolved problems in physicsRelated: Its identity remains unknown despite strong evidence for its gravitational influence.