Sentences with phrase «called galactic rotation»
«I had heard there was this trouble understanding the so - called galactic rotation curves, which describe the way stars rotate around the centers of galaxies,» he says.
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Sharma worked out how the speed of circular orbits changed with distance from the galactic centre (called the rotation curve).
In 1983, Mordehai Milgrom a physicist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, found that he could explain the so - called galaxy rotation curves without dark matter if he simply assumed that on the galactic scale, dynamics and gravity worked a bit differently from what Isaac Newton postulated.