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the puzzle that the most massive dark matter subhalos predicted around the Milky Way are too dense to host its observed bright satellite galaxies.

In cosmology, too big to fail problem refers to the puzzle that the most massive dark matter subhalos predicted around the Milky Way are too dense to host its observed bright satellite galaxies. This meaning comes from Boylan-Kolchin (2011) in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters.[1]

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References

Boylan-Kolchin, M., Bullock, J. S., & Kaplinghat, M. (2011). Too big to fail? The puzzling darkness of massive Milky Way subhaloes. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 415(1), L40-L44. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-3933.2011.01074.x

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