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It was recently proposed that the effects usually attributed to particle dark matter on galaxy scales are due to the displacement of dark energy by baryonic matter, a paradigm known as emergent gravity. This formalism leads to predictions…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-22 Aurelien Hees , Benoit Famaey , Gianfranco Bertone

It has long been known that Newtonian dynamics applied to the visible matter in galaxies and clusters does not correctly describe the dynamics of those systems. While this is generally taken as evidence for dark matter it is in principle…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Anthony Aguirre

The works in this portfolio test the hypothesis that it is not possible to extrapolate the Newtonian inverse square law of gravity from Solar System to galaxy scales. In particular, I look into various tests of Modified Newtonian Dynamics…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-26 Indranil Banik

We investigate the possibility of discriminating between Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) and Newtonian gravity with dark matter, by studying the vertical dynamics of disk galaxies. We consider models with the same circular velocity in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Carlo Nipoti , Pasquale Londrillo , HongSheng Zhao , Luca Ciotti

We propose to determine the stellar velocity dispersions of globular clusters in the outer halo of the Milky Way in order to decide whether the dynamics of the universe on large scales is governed by dark matter or modified Newtonian…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Baumgardt , E. K. Grebel , P. Kroupa

We review galaxy formation and dynamics under the MOND hypothesis of modified gravity, and compare to similar galaxies in Newtonian dynamics with dark matter. The aim is to find peculiar predictions both to discriminate between various…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 F. Combes , O. Tiret

The missing gravity in galaxies requires dark matter, or alternatively a modification of gravity or inertia. These theoretical possibilities of fundamental importance may be distinguished by the statistical relation between the observed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-21 Kyu-Hyun Chae

Milgrom's modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) has done a great job on accounting for the rotation curves of a variety of galaxies by assuming that Newtonian dynamics breaks down for extremely low acceleration typically found in the galactic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-01 Ling-Jun Wang

General relativity (GR) is the most successful theory of gravity, with great observational support on local scales. However, to keep GR valid over cosmic scales, some phenomena (such as flat galaxy rotation curves and the cosmic expansion…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-12 Robert Monjo , Indranil Banik

A modified gravitational theory explains early universe and late time cosmology, galaxy and galaxy cluster dynamics. The modified gravity (MOG) theory extends general relativity (GR) by three extra degrees of freedom: a scalar field $G$,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-30 J. W. Moffat

Our modified gravity theory (MOG) is a gravitational theory without exotic dark matter, based on an action principle. MOG has been used successfully to model astrophysical phenomena such as galaxy rotation curves, galaxy cluster masses, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-25 J. W. Moffat , V. T. Toth

The modified newtonian dynamics (MOND) paradigm of Milgrom can boast of a number of successful predictions regarding galactic dynamics; these are made without the assumption that dark matter plays a significant role. MOND requires…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Jacob D. Bekenstein

This chapter presents Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND), the proposal that, below a certain acceleration scale $a_0$, dynamics departs from the Newtonian expectation. In that context, the determining factor for the emergence of apparent…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-29 Benoit Famaey , Amel Durakovic

Many models have been proposed to minimize the dark matter (DM) content in various astronomical objects at every scale in the Universe. The most widely known model isMOdified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND). MOND was first published by Mordehai…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-27 Gianni Pascoli

We summarize the status of Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) in galaxy clusters. The observed acceleration is typically larger than the acceleration threshold of MOND in the central regions, implying that some dark matter is necessary to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 B. Famaey , G. W. Angus , G. Gentile , H. Y. Shan , H. S. Zhao

Modified gravity theories such as Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) and Scalar-Tensor-Vector Gravity (STVG) have been proposed as alternatives to dark matter, but decisive tests have been hindered by degeneracies between baryonic structure…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-12 Zheng-long Wang , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai , Lan Zhang , Yin Wu , Haining Li , Xiang-Xiang Xue , Hongsheng Zhao , Yi-Zhong Fan

MOND is a phenomenological modification of Newton's law of gravitation which reproduces the dynamics of galaxies, without the need for additional dark matter. This paper reviews the basics of MOND and its application to dwarf galaxies. MOND…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Arthur Kosowsky

General Relativity is able to describe the dynamics of galaxies and larger cosmic structures only if most of the matter in the Universe is dark, namely it does not emit any electromagnetic radiation. Intriguingly, on the scale of galaxies,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-28 Antonaldo Diaferio , Garry W. Angus

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

In this work, we propose a modified Newton dynamics (MOND) model to study the rotation curves of galaxies. The model is described by an arctangent interpolating function and it fits the rotation curves of several galaxies without invoking…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-03 Ana C. M. Ciqueira , Geanderson A. Carvalho , Paulo H. Faccin , Fabrício T. Dalmolin