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- Mass distribution in Bullet Cluster has an explanation without dark matter. The Supermassive black holes would accumulate at the edges of collision.
The Bullet Cluster counts as 'smoking gun' for the dark matter. But what lacks in these calculations is the super massive black holes at the center of almost every galaxy. As the most massive and most compact objects in the collision, it's expected that they are less slowed down by the collision than gas and stars. As a result they will accumulate at the edges of the colliding clusters. Super massive black holes are expected to create the observed weak gravitational lensing.