Most of the mass of the Milky Way seems to exist in the form of
A) young stars in the disk.
B) old stars in the Galactic halo.
C) hydrogen gas in the disk and spiral arms.
D) dark matter out in the Galactic halo.
E) the black hole in the Galactic center.
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