I understand that the galaxy is disk shaped because it has a substantial total angular momentum (if that's the right term). If the dark matter halo is a sphere, does that mean that its total angular momentum is zero? If so, why would the galaxy and the halo be so different in this respect?
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4Related: http://physics.stackexchange.com/q/25504/, http://physics.stackexchange.com/q/15226/, http://physics.stackexchange.com/q/46634/ – HDE 226868 Nov 22 '15 at 22:30