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Gravity tested on cosmic scales

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Einstein's theory of general relativity has been tested — and confirmed — on scales far beyond those of our Solar System. But the results don't exclude all alternative theories of gravity.

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Figure 1: Slices through the SDSS three-dimensional map of galaxies.

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  1. J. Anthony Tyson is in the Department of Physics, University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA. tyson@physics.ucdavis.edu,

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Tyson, J. Gravity tested on cosmic scales. Nature 464, 172–173 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/464172a

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