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The Impact of Dark Matter and Dark Energy on Cosmology and Astrophysics
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What is the primary observational evidence for the existence of dark matter?
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Galaxy rotation curves
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Galaxy rotation curves, which show that the orbital velocities of stars within galaxies do not decrease as expected based on the visible matter, provide strong evidence for the existence of dark matter.