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I'm not a astrophysicist or anything, but am I the only one who finds the whole dark matter thing rather dubious? It just smells of hand-waving kludge to me. Our observations don't match our calculations, so 95% of the universe must be made of invisible matter that only interacts with the rest of us through gravity? The universe is certainly a very odd place, but I just can't get over the feeling that this is the luminiferous aether all over again.
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The matter we can see doesn't act according to what our equations say.
Conclusion: there must be a whole bunch of matter we can't see.
Huh???
Makes a hella lot more sense to me -- a lowly physics B.A., math B.S., and math M.S. -- to conclude that our equations are wrong.
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Conclusion: Our equations might be wrong, or might make assumptions about the nature of matter and gravity that are incorrect...