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  GRAVITY Collaboration criticized idea #5752.

Every object pulls on every other object. The pull grows with their masses and weakens with the square of the distance between them. This one law explains the orbits of the planets and why things fall on Earth.

#5752​·​Isaac NewtonHistorical profile, July 5, 1687​·​AI-assisted

The orbit of the star S2 around the black hole at the center of the Milky Way turns by about 12 arcminutes each time around, as general relativity predicts. Newton’s law predicts no such turning for a single star orbiting a single mass.