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wolfpack_charlie t1_is61xlp wrote
Reply to comment by The_Great_Mighty_Poo in First ever map of Milky Way's galactic graveyard revealed by imagine-aincrad
Not an astronomer, but I would guess probably not, since we need several times as much dark matter as ordinary matter. Also, judging from the picture, it looks like the graveyard mass is still concentrated in the center, not in a ring surrounding the galaxy.
It's also important to remember that galaxy rotation is just one of several phenomenon that dark matter explains. These stellar graveyards inside galaxies wouldn't explain the dynamics of galaxy clusters or the CMB
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