Maybe supermassive black holes in galactic centers give off spiralling gravity waves, which far from the center of the galaxy would look like spokes on a wheel. Maybe these waves keep stars moving lock-step with each other much further away than predicted by Newtonian gravity.
New Scientist article and images
A single merger shows a spiral wave pattern. But if you take two of these events and separate them, then superimpose theri wave patterns, you get an interference pattern with null nodes and amplified nodes, like in acoustics.
Stars may be surfing these nodes of gravity waves. Galaxies same thing. And maybe that's why gravity waves haven't been detected, because we're always riding the same one.
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