Do you think dark matter is real or could?

Hopefully this is a subject that most people know..since they dont know nothing about black holes and white holes. But do you think that dark matter is real? Do you think it covers about I think they said 60%...idk.
And no I'm not googling I'm not on Facebook these are real questions scientists actually discuss. They say that dark matter makes up a good bit of the universe but its hard to detect. One scientist believes that (s)he found it, a huge chunk of nothingness in space like no matter and stuff. Watch some PBS science scishow, Neil degrades, or michio kaku... or Stephen hawking

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Sandcastler · 22-25, M

yeah dark matter definitely does exist! the figures for what percentage of the total matter content it is are still quite uncertain tho. our own galaxy has significant amount of dark matter in it actually. The problem is that it's incredibly difficult to detect (we haven't directly detected it yet). But we know it exists because of early-universe simulations and because of statistical data regarding how fast galaxies rotate as a function of the distance from their centers! The leading theories for the nature of dark matter are WIMPS (weakly interacting massive particles) and objects called primordial black holes, which are black holes that are very very small and formed very early on in the lifetime of the universe.

Afroartis · 26-30, M

@Sandcastler reading this is like hearing the dude talking about it like wow.