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Re:Dark Matter May Be Trapped in All the Black Holes by macspoofing on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @05:05PM (#14962697)
Neptune was invented when the orbit of Uranus didn't match our theory of gravity.
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Re:Dark Matter May Be Trapped in All the Black Holes by jeffwass on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @05:41PM (#14963081)
Vulcan was 'invented' when the orbit of Mercury didn't match our theory of [non-relativistic] gravity.

Then recanted when we improved our knowledge of gravitation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_(hypothetical_planet)

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Re:Dark Matter May Be Trapped in All the Black Holes by macspoofing on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @07:17PM (#14963916)
What's the moral of the story?
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Re:Dark Matter May Be Trapped in All the Black Holes by effie on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @09:39AM (#14968619)
Sometimes proposed invisible body of mass turns out to really exist, sometimes it is discarded as no longer necessary.
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Re:Dark Matter May Be Trapped in All the Black Holes by macspoofing on Thursday August 10, 2017 @08:34AM (#14978963)
Exactly the point I wanted to make to OP - who was skeptical of dark matter because we didn't throw out General Relatively, one of the most tested and successful theories of all time, when some aberrations were noticed.
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