| Acknowledgements | p. vii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Early history of the dark matter hypothesis | p. 11 |
| Prehistory | p. 11 |
| Zwicky and the modern concept of dark matter | p. 12 |
| Dark matter on galaxy scales | p. 15 |
| Radio astronomy: a new tool for galactic astronomy | p. 20 |
| Finzi sums it up | p. 23 |
| The stability of disk galaxies: the dark-halo solution | p. 26 |
| Building disk galaxies: too hot to be real | p. 26 |
| Dark halos to the rescue | p. 30 |
| Larger implications | p. 34 |
| Direct evidence: extended rotation curves of spiral galaxies | p. 38 |
| Radio telescopes: single-dish and interferometers | p. 38 |
| Early results of single-dish neutral hydrogen observations | p. 44 |
| Early observations of spiral galaxies with radio interferometers | p. 48 |
| Flat rotation curves: perception approaches reality | p. 51 |
| The maximum-disk: light traces mass | p. 57 |
| Reaction follows revolution | p. 57 |
| The anomaly exists beyond the visible disk | p. 62 |
| Low-surface-brightness galaxies and sub-maximal disks | p. 65 |
| Reflections on observations of rotation curves | p. 67 |
| Cosmology and the birth of astroparticle physics | p. 69 |
| A brief history of modern cosmological models | p. 69 |
| Structure formation: dark matter again to the rescue | p. 72 |
| Some like it hot, most like it cold, all like it in the pot 10 billion years old | p. 76 |
| What is the matter? | p. 80 |
| A new paradigm: standard CDM | p. 84 |
| Clusters revisited: missing mass found | p. 87 |
| The reality of the cluster discrepancy | p. 87 |
| Hot gas in clusters of galaxies | p. 88 |
| Gravitational lensing: a new method for probing cluster mass distribution | p. 93 |
| The Bullet | p. 98 |
| CDM confronts galaxy rotation curves | p. 101 |
| What do rotation curves require of dark matter? | p. 101 |
| Global scaling relations | p. 105 |
| Structure formation in a CDM universe | p. 106 |
| The mass distribution in CDM dark halos | p. 109 |
| Substructure in CDM halos | p. 113 |
| The Tully-Fisher law | p. 115 |
| Can CDM be falsified by galaxy phenomenology? | p. 117 |
| The new cosmology: introducing dark energy | p. 119 |
| The accelerated expansion of the Universe | p. 119 |
| COBE finds the primordial fluctuations | p. 124 |
| What do we see in the CMB? | p. 125 |
| Boomerang to WMAP: the age of precision cosmology | p. 127 |
| Reflections | p. 130 |
| An alternative to dark matter: modified Newtonian dynamics | p. 132 |
| Naive modifications of Newtonian attraction | p. 132 |
| MOND | p. 133 |
| MOND and hot galaxies | p. 138 |
| MOND and rotation curves | p. 140 |
| The problem of clusters | p. 143 |
| Relativistic MOND: TeVeS | p. 144 |
| Summing up: MOND vs. dark matter | p. 147 |
| Seeing dark matter: the theory and practice of detection | p. 150 |
| Non-gravitational detection of dark matter | p. 150 |
| The practice of direct detection | p. 152 |
| Indirect detection of dark matter | p. 159 |
| Light on dark matter: the story so far | p. 165 |
| Reflections: a personal point of view | p. 166 |
| Appendix: Astronomy made simple | p. 173 |
| References | p. 195 |
| Index | p. 202 |
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