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Old 11-01-2010, 09:01 PM
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Off topic slightly... if we can see Black Holes through 'gravitational lensing', why would we not get the same effect from Dark Matter, which apparently takes up 90% of the universe?!? Surely it would occasionally float between us and a light source?
Yes it does.

Strong evidence for dark matter is provided by lensing of the "Bullet Cluster galaxies".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_Cluster

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