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Astrophysicists observed mysterious behavior in star clusters that could lead to a rewrite of fundamental principles of the theory of gravity and even disprove the existence of dark matter,The new findings challenge existing preconceptions based on widely-accepted principles from Newton's law of universal gravitation, which explain the large-scale structure and movements of the universe.
In order to carry out their investigation, the researchers had to devise a method for determining which stars belong to which of the cluster's tails. They used their new technique, named the Jerabkova-compact-convergent-point method, on data of four open star clusters gathered by surveys, includingThe scientists were surprised to find that, in all four clusters, the tail in front of the clusters had many more stars than the one that was trailing behind.
"Put simply, according to MOND, stars can leave a cluster through two different doors," said Professor Pavel Kroupa, first author of the study. “One leads to the rear tidal tail, the other to the front. However, the first is much narrower than the second – so it’s less likely that a star will leave the cluster through it. Newton's theory of gravity, on the other hand, predicts that both doors should be the same width.
Dark matter was first theorized in the 1930s to explain movements of stars and galaxies that couldn't be explained by
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