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I dont know correctly but it may be most of the galaxy I think so!

In reality we don't 'know' but our best understanding is;

Ordinary matter: ~4.5 %, dark matter: 23%, dark energy: 72%.

Reputedly 80% of this 23% dark matter is cold dark matter and 20% is hot dark matter.

It has been said that "dark matter.... makes up more than 80% of the matter of the universe." but that is a common misunderstanding; But we MAY say; up to 96% of the mass-energy in the universe is 'dark'.

We don't know what dark matter is, but in fact it only means it does not have an easily detectable 'electromagnetic cross section' so it could be electrons/ions plasma, which has a refractive index of 1.

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