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Loading contentAn alternative proposal that modifies the law of gravity at very low accelerations instead of invoking dark matter.
MOND, proposed by Mordehai Milgrom in 1983, adjusts Newton's second law at tiny accelerations to explain flat galaxy rotation curves without dark matter. It succeeds remarkably at the scale of individual galaxies.
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