Despite the many successes of the cold dark matter cosmological model, observational challenges on subgalactic scales motivate researchers to consider alternatives, including a model in which dark matter is a quantum wave with an astronomically large wavelength.
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Widrow, L. Galactic wave mechanics. Nature Phys 10, 477–478 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys3020
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