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I consider in light of MOND the three debris galaxies discussed recently by Bournaud et al.. These exhibit mass discrepancies of a factor of a few within several scale lengths of the visible galaxy, which, arguably, flies in the face of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mordehai Milgrom

Dark matter is the generally accepted paradigm in astrophysics and cosmology as a solution to the higher rate of rotation in galaxies, among many other reasons. But since there are still some problems encountered by the standard dark matter…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-24 Hanna A. Sabat , Raed Z. Bani-Abdoh , Marwan S. Mousa

Modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) is an alternative theory of gravity that aims to explain large-scale dynamics without recourse to any form of dark matter. However the theory is incomplete, lacking a relativistic counterpart, and so makes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Daniel J. Mortlock , Edwin L. Turner

In default of a fundamental MOND theory -- a FUNDAMOND -- I advocate that, alongside searching for one, we should try to identify predictions that follow from wide classes of MOND theories, if not necessarily from all. In particular,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-21 Mordehai Milgrom

Modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) is an empirical theory originally proposed to explain the rotation curves of spiral galaxies by modifying the gravitational acceleration, rather than by invoking dark matter. Here,we set constraints on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-28 Fabio Iocco , Miguel Pato , Gianfranco Bertone

Context. Many ellipticals are surrounded by round stellar shells probably stemming from minor mergers. A new method for constraining gravitational potential in elliptical galaxies has recently been suggested. It uses the spectral line…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Michal Bílek , Bruno Jungwiert , Ivana Ebrová , Kateřina Bartošková

We use a one dimensional hydrodynamical code to study the evolution of spherically symmetric perturbations in the framework of Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND). The code evolves spherical gaseous shells in an expanding Universe by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Adi Nusser , Etienne Pointecouteau

Modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) provides a paradigm alternative to dark matter that has been successful in fitting and predicting the rich phenomenology of rotating disc galaxies. There have also been attempts to test MOND in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Kyu-Hyun Chae , In-Taek Gong

Gerhard had recently analyzed the data on seven dwarf spheroidals, and concluded that these disagree with the predictions of MOND. We contend that this conclusion is anything but correct. With new data for three of the dwarfs the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Mordehai Milgrom

Using the group catalog obtained from zCOSMOS spectroscopic data and the complementary photometric data from the COSMOS survey, we explore segregation effects occurring in groups of galaxies at intermediate/high redshifts. We built two…

Modified Newtonian dynamics (Mond) has had considerable success in describing motions in galaxies. It uses a single force which falls off inversely with the distance at large distances and inversely with the square of the distance at…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Peter Rastall

Keller and Wadsley (2016) have smugly suggested, recently, that the end of MOND may be in view. This is based on their claim that their highly-restricted sample of $\Lambda$CDM-simulated galaxies are "consistent" with the observed MOND…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-25 Mordehai Milgrom

MOND predictions are compared with the mass discrepancy, Gamma (the dynamical-to-baryon mass ratio) deduced from the recently measured rotation curve, for the gas-rich, dwarf galaxy KK246, "the only galaxy observed in the local void". KK246…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-07 Mordehai Milgrom

I start with a brief introduction to MOND phenomenology and its possible roots in cosmology--a notion that may turn out to be the most far reaching aspect of MOND. Next I discuss the implications of MOND for the dark matter (DM) doctrine:…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Mordehai Milgrom

In Milgrom's modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) framework, the dynamical mass of a galaxy is fully determined by its baryonic matter distribution. We fit the distribution of cold and hot gas halos, focusing on hot gas, around SDSS central…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-07 Li Ma , Ziwen Zhang , Huiyuan Wang , Xufen Wu

Mass discrepancies in galaxies are empirically known to appear only below a characteristic acceleration scale a0. Here we show that this behaviour is not limited to galaxies: it extends continuously across the full hierarchy of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-20 Robin Eappen , Pavel Kroupa

The formation of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in early-type galaxies (ETGs) is a key challenge for galaxy formation theories. Using the monolithic collapse models of ETGs formed in Milgromian Dynamics (MOND) from Eappen et al. (2022),…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-02 Robin Eappen , Pavel Kroupa

It is shown that the MOdified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) explains the tilt of the fundamental plane of elliptical galaxies without the need of non-baryonic dark matter. Results found for elliptical galaxies extends to globular clusters and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Riccardo Scarpa

Detailed knowledge of the different classes of stellar orbits that can be accommodated in a given galactic potential is a prerequisite when building self-consistent models using for instance the Schwazschild technique. Furthermore,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-24 Claudio Llinares

We study geometries of galactic rotation curves from Dark Matter (DM) and Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) models in $(g_{\rm bar},g_{\rm tot})$-space ($g2$-space) where $g_{\rm tot}$ is the total centripetal acceleration of matter in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-29 Mads T. Frandsen , Jonas Petersen