The positions and motions of galaxies are dictated by the laws of gravity. A new technique to measure the anisotropy in the three-dimensional redshift distribution of galaxies seriously challenges attempts to go beyond Einstein’s general theory of relativity.
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Bianchini, F. Pancakes and fingers in the sky. Nat Astron 2, 942–943 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-018-0594-x
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