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Of course it is not a direct observation, if it were it would be called something else and the conversations would never had started.

Dark matter is more like a list of problems, observations that don’t correspond with our understanding of the universe. It is dark because we can’t anything causing them, and matter because it seems to be way too little mass for the gravitation effects we see.

Even though wikipedia calls dark matter an hypothesis it really isn’t. Dark matter is the observation, we see the gravitational effects of something that doesn’t seems to be there, mainly galaxies spinning faster than they should and light bending around clusters of galaxies more than it would bend otherwise.

Van Dokum at it again?