Dark Matter

Abstract

I give a review of the development of the concept of dark matter. The dark matter story passed through several stages from a minor observational puzzle to a major challenge for theory of elementary particles. Modern data suggest that dark matter is the dominant matter component in the Universe, and that it consists of some unknown non-baryonic particles. Dark matter is the dominant matter component in the Universe, thus properties of dark matter particles determine the structure of the cosmic web.

Invited plenary talk at the 26th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics - TEXAS 2012, 10 pages, 3 figures; Brazilian Journal of Physics, online June 2013

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