# What is the percentage of dark matter in the galaxy? [closed]

Assuming the mass of the stars and gas within NGC 5055 is $8\times10^{10} M_{sun}$. What is the percentage of the dark matter in it?

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• The percentage of the punctuations in your text is exactly 0% and it is clearly visible that you dont even try to formulate a clear question this is why your question is now it the very low quality review queue I suggest to fix it ASAP – peterh Feb 27 '17 at 1:02
• Yeah this question demonstrate very little effort and also provides very little conceptual elements. – ZeroTheHero Feb 27 '17 at 5:19

## 1 Answer

As a first estimate you can use the cosmological ratio of dark matter to baryonic matter which is about 5 to 1. So the mass of dark matter would be $4*10^{11} M_{\rm sun}$. This will probably be a slight over estimate as galaxies generally have a slightly lower ratios compared to the cosmological average. A more accurate estimate can be inferred from the line of sight velocities of the stars in NGC 5055.