Strange observations of galaxies challenge ideas about dark matter

As seen by the Hubble Space Telescope, the galaxy cluster Abell 370 reveals telltale streaks of light from more distant galaxies that have had their light bent and distorted by an effect called gravitational lensing. NASA, ESA, AND J. LOTZ AND THE HFF TEAM/STSCI

ScienceNews quotes Bhuvnesh Jain in their recent article about dark matter.

“I think it’s a real stretch to say that one can do away with dark matter, because the lines of evidence [for it] are so numerous,” says Bhuvnesh Jain, a cosmologist at the University of Pennsylvania.

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