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Currently, there is no evidence that it does exist, however, a lot of astronomers believe it does. A lot of astronomers have seen it but can't quite find any solid evidence that it does. To sum it up in a nutshell, it's basically innocent until proven guilty per se.

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"Black matter" could be black paint. Perhaps you are referring to "dark matter"?

There's a problem in the Milky Way; it doesn't fly apart. The Milky Way is rotating, and it is rotating so quickly - one rotation every 220 million years or so - that it would take a LOT of mass to generate enough gravity to keep it together. We can't see enough matter to hold the galaxy together!

So either our fundamental theories of gravity are wrong - and they generally seem to work OK - or there is mass in the galaxy that we cannot see. If the mass were in the form of stars or nebulae, we would be able to see it. So the matter - if it exists - is "dark", and not easily detectable. Perhaps the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy is WAY bigger than we think. Perhaps there is some other force in the galaxy that we don't know about yet. And perhaps there is some kind of invisible, or indetectable, or "dark" matter. Or perhaps there s some sort of super-gravity that we don't know of yet, some sort of "dark energy". Or maybe it's just The Force, that Binds the Galaxy Together.

Ever since Ugghhh the Caveman came down from the trees and started carrying a club, men have "made up" explanations for things that we didn't understand. This is where superstitions come from, and fables, and stories about the gods and heroes who climbed up into the heavens to shine down on us as constellations. So far, "dark matter" and "dark energy" are in that same realm; interesting concepts with precisely ZERO evidence.

Keep an open mind; the reason why the galaxy isn't flying apart may be any of the explanations above, or all of them, or something else that we haven't thought about yet.

I'll quote another Science Fiction character: Commander Data of Star Trek said "The beginning of wisdom is the ability to say 'I do not know'". Maybe it isn't fiction!

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