The Dark Matter Mystery Just Took a Weird Turn

Stop cheating on your AI's and use the one that puts your knowledge first. 🔗 https://www.recall.it/?t=sabine Use code SABINE25 for 25% off, valid until June 1, 2026. Have you been listening? Take my quiz and see if you can top the leaderboard: https://app.recall.it/c/4e7aa9f6-c8fc-501d-a3f6-dfb2b8e8d895 MOND (Modified Newtonian Dynamics) is a theory of gravity that explains the physical phenomena we observe in galaxies with surprising accuracy, but it falls apart when it’s applied to galaxy clusters. The widely accepted dark matter theory, meanwhile, can apply to both. But according to new research by astrophysicists, observational data shows that our universe is full of more dead stars than we thought – with that in mind, they claim that MOND is now more widely applicable than dark matter theory. Let’s take a look. Paper: https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/mp3f-q5dc 👕T-shirts, mugs, posters and more: ➜ https://sabines-store.dashery.com/ 💌 Support me on Donorbox ➜ https://donorbox.org/swtg 👉 Transcript with links to references on Patreon ➜ https://www.patreon.com/Sabine 📝 Transcripts and written news on Substack ➜ https://sciencewtg.substack.com/ 📩 Free weekly science newsletter ➜ https://sabinehossenfelder.com/newsletter/ 👂 Audio only podcast ➜ https://open.spotify.com/show/0MkNfXlKnMPEUMEeKQYmYC 🔗 Join this channel to get access to perks ➜ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1yNl2E66ZzKApQdRuTQ4tw/join 📚 Buy my book ➜ https://amzn.to/3HSAWJW #science #sciencenews #physics #darkmatter