Also see [1], a follow up post by Stacy McGaugh, a MOND proponent, who is quoted in the Quanta article. He does not agree with the evidence as presented in that article.
[1] https://tritonstation.com/2026/10/15/ghostly-galaxies-in-the...
> DF2 has consistently been portrayed as fatal for MOND despite consistently being shown not to be a problem. I’ve given up writing formal papers showing this, as nobody cares. They just hear what they want to hear, which is that MOND is wrong. Indeed, after the 2018& incident I swore off doing so.
This should set off crank alarms when you read it.
“We don’t know what dark matter is or how to directly measure it but this distant galaxy has none”
Ok then