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Recent observations have revealed the structural properties of the dark and luminous mass distribution in spirals. These results led to the vision of a new and amazing scenario. The investigation of single and coadded objects has shown that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-04-13 Paolo Salucci , Mariafelicia De Laurentis

The concept of dark matter in the Universe and its components has been discussed in the 1930s by several authors, and in particular by Oort (1932) and Zwicky (1933). However, it is only in the 1970s that the existence of dark matter was…

Popular Physics · Physics 2023-09-13 Albert Bosma

The dark matter accretion theory (around a central body) of the author on the basis of his 5-dimensional Projective Unified Field Theory (PUFT) is applied to the orbital motion of stars around the center of the Galaxy. The departure of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Schmutzer

I present an alternative explanation of flat rotational curves of galaxies that does not require dark matter but rather relies on classical Newtonian dynamics and an overlooked effect of quantum tunneling. I introduce a rotational drag…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-09-08 Max I. Fomitchev

Whenever and wherever one talks of dark matter, one does so when and where there is a luminous matter and a dynamical issue to be settled. We promote this observation to the status of an axiom and assume that there is a dark companion to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-10-14 Yousef Sobouti

We discuss scenarios in which the galactic dark matter in spiral galaxies is described by a long range coherent field which settles in a stationary configuration that might account for the features of the galactic rotation curves. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 Ulises Nucamendi , Marcelo Salgado , Daniel Sudarsky

Wherever one talks of dark matter, one does so where there is an observable matter and an associated unsolved dynamical issue to be settled. We promote this observation to the status of an axiom and conjecture that there is a dark companion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-03-31 Yousef Sobouti

Flat rotation curves in disk galaxies represent the main evidence for large amounts of surrounding dark matter. Despite of the difficulty in identifying the dark matter contribution to the total mass density in our Galaxy, stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-15 Mariateresa Crosta , Marco Giammaria , Mario G. Lattanzi , Eloisa Poggio

Flat or almost flat rotation curves of spiral galaxies can be explained by logarithmic gravitational potentials. The field equations of GR admit of spacetime metrics with such behaviors. The scenario can be interpreted either as an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-03-26 Yousef Sobouti

The standard proposal within the context of General relativity and its weak field Newtonian limit for the nature of dark matter is that it consists of dark matter particles of unknown type. In the present work and specifically for spiral…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-21 Jan Govaerts

In this paper we study consistent solutions of spherically symmetric space in metric f(R) gravity theory. Here we inversely obtain a generic action from metric solutions that describe flat rotation curves in spiral galaxies without dark…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-11 Solmaz Asgari , Reza Saffari

The idea is considered that a classical non-Abelian gauge field can be considered as a dark matter candidate. It is shown that Yang-Mills equations have solutions with such distribution of the mass density that allows to describe a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-16 Vladimir Dzhunushaliev

A mysterious type of matter is supposed to exist, because the observed rotational velocity curves of particle moving around the galactic center and the expected rotational velocity curves do not match. There are also a number of proposals…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-22 Muhammad Usman

In the past years a wealth of observations has unraveled the structural properties of dark and luminous mass distribution in galaxies, a benchmark for understanding dark matter and the process of galaxy formation. The study of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-26 Christiane Frigerio Martins

It is still a challenging problem to the theoretical physicists to know the exact nature of the galactic dark matter which causes the galactic rotational velocity to be more or less a constant. We have proposed that the dark matter as an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 Farook Rahaman , Ritabrata Biswas , Hafiza Ismat Fatima , Nasarul Islam

We consider the possibility of an alternative gravity theory explaining the dynamics of galactic systems without dark matter. From very general assumptions about the structure of a relativistic gravity theory we derive a general expression…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Vadim V. Zhytnikov , James M. Nester

A simple model for the dust media describing evolution of the system like spiral galaxy is considered. In contrast to previous considerations we show that the initial density fold should be quasi-one-dimensional (bar-like) instead of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. E. Filippov , A. S. Zhedanov

Galactic rotation curves have proven to be the testing ground for dark matter bounds in spiral galaxies of all morphologies. Dwarf galaxies serve as an increasingly interesting case of rotation curve dynamics due to their typically rising…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-10 James G. O'Brien , Thomas L. Chiarelli , Jeremy Dentico , Modestas Stulge , Brian Stefanski , Robert Moss , Spasen Chaykov

A better understanding of the formation of mass structures in the universe can be obtained by determining the amount and distribution of dark and luminous matter in spiral galaxies. To investigate such matters a sample of 12 galaxies, most…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Roelof Bottema , Jose Luis G. Pestana

It has been suggested that the observed flat rotation curves of disk galaxies can be a peculiar effect of General Relativity (GR) rather than evidence for the presence of dark matter (DM) halos in Newtonian gravity. In Ciotti (2022) the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-14 Luca Ciotti