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Re:Astronomers discover a strange galaxy without dark matter by mhio on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @07:24PM (#29915006)
Was there a particular piece (or pieces) of research that stood out as the thing that convinced you MOND was the complete model?
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Re:Astronomers discover a strange galaxy without dark matter by sahil50 on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @07:32PM (#29915107)
http://astroweb.case.edu/ssm/mond/fit_compare.html

cold dark matter (CDM) is a superimposed amorphous blob of invisible non-interacting matter, hence its inability to model the kinks in the real rotation curve

modified gravity (MOND) models the kinks in the rotation curve

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