Dwarf galaxy problem
THE FACT THAT THE NUMBER OF OBSERVED DWARF GALAXIES IS ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE LOWER THAN EXPECTED FROM NUMERICAL COSMOLOGICAL SIMULATIONS
Missing dwarf galaxy problem; Missing dwarf problem; Missing satellites problem
The dwarf galaxy problem, also known as the missing satellites problem, arises from a mismatch between observed dwarf galaxy numbers and collisionless numerical cosmological simulations that predict the evolution of the distribution of matter in the universe. In simulations, dark matter clusters hierarchically, in ever increasing numbers of halo "blobs" as halos' components' sizes become smaller-and-smaller.