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The most famous example: the Bullet Cluster https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2017/11/09/the-bullet-cluster-proves-dark-matter-exists-but-not-for-th
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The most famous example: the Bullet Cluster
https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2017/11/09/the-bullet-cluster-proves-dark-matter-exists-but-not-for-the-reason-most-physicists-think/#2769ca511738 https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2017/11/09/the-...
“This argument has been made for over a decade, now, with no satisfactory counterargument coming from detractors of dark matter. It isn’t the displacement of gravitation from normal matter that “proves” dark matter exists, but rather the fact that the displacement only occurs in environments where dark matter and normal matter would be separated by astrophysical processes.”