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You cannot see it but you know it's there.
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How do you know it's there?
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You know it's there
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because our galaxy or any galaxy
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has got matter you see and matter you don't see.
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If you draw an orbit around the galaxy,
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going all the way around the galaxy,
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you can treat the entire mass as sitting at the center.
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Then you can use your gravitational formula,
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v^2·r as the enclosed mass.
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If you go further out,
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you should find you're not enclosing any more mass