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  1. Israa Abdulqasim Mohammed Ali, Zamri Zainal Abidin, Chorng-Yuan Hwang, Adele Laurie Plunkett
    Sains Malaysiana, 2018;47:1241-1249.
    We investigated the central mass distribution of the luminous infrared galaxy NGC 3256 at a distance of 35 Mpc by using
    CO(1-0) observations of the Atacama Large Millimeter and sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) and near-IR data of the Two
    Micron Sky Survey (2MASS). We found that there is a huge amount of invisible dynamical mass (4.48 × 1010 ) in the
    central region of the galaxy. The invisible mass is likely caused by some dark matter, which might have a cuspy dark
    matter profile. We note that this dark matter is difficult to explain with the conventional Modified Newtonian Dynamics
    (MOND) model, which is only applicable at a low acceleration regime, whereas the acceleration at the central region
    of the galaxy is relatively strong. Therefore, this discovery might pose a challenge to the conventional MOND models.
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