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Large-scale structures can probe the laws of gravity at scales that they have not yet been tested at, but these tests demand accurate modelling of complex galaxy formation processes in competing gravitational theories.

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Fig. 1: A representation of the gas density in a thin slice passing through the disk of one of the rotationally supported galaxies formed in the simulations described by Arnold and colleagues1.

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Baldi, M. Behind the screen. Nat Astron 3, 887–888 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-019-0882-0

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