Physics A-Level
Dark matter and its gravitational evidence
What Dark matter and its gravitational evidence means in Physics A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Dark matter and its gravitational evidence
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Reference: OCR
Matter that does not emit or absorb light but exerts gravity, with evidence including galaxy rotation curves and gravitational lensing.
Topics that use Dark matter and its gravitational evidence
- Cosmology (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Age of the universe
- Astronomical distance units
- Baseline
- Big Bang nucleosynthesis
- Big Bang theory
- Cosmic microwave background
- Cosmic microwave background radiation
- Cosmological redshift
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