Can gravitational lensing detect dark matter?

Context: Graduate
Thread starter ham 'n eggs
Start date Sep 12, 2006
Tags

Dark matter Matter Observable

Join the discussion

Registration is free. Ask a follow-up in this thread, or start your own.

1 reply · 3K views

ham 'n eggs

Thread starter
Sep 12, 2006

Hi.

Couldn't dark matter be confirmed with the gravitational lense effect? Shouldn't we see a difference in the lensing effect that is not accountable to the traditionally considered visual mass?

Discussion

Astronomy news on Phys.org

Cosmic filaments help set first limits on dark matter's decay into gravitons
Galactic spins carry fingerprints of the primordial universe
Physicists trace solar outbursts that led to historic Mother's Day storms

franznietzsche

Sep 12, 2006

See this thread.

https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?p=1082631

Can gravitational lensing detect dark matter?

Discussion

High School A question on the geometry of black holes

Stargazing Astronomy: Orbit Terminology

High School Good drawing of Earth's orbit for model? Possibly vector file?

Undergrad Converting the Hubble constant to everyday speed units

Stargazing Meteor/meteorite made a big boom this morning!

Undergrad Can ionic thrusters be used as a secondary propulsion system for rockets?

Undergrad Exoplanet, HD 137010 b and it's star, HD 137010

Graduate Larson-Sekanina Rotational Gradient Filter for comet 3i/Atlas

Undergrad Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transients (LFBOTs)

Graduate Late time and early time approximation for EOS

Insights Revisiting the Velocity-Time Function

Insights Remote Operated Gate Control System

Insights AI Enriched Problem Solving

Insights Thinking Outside The Box Versus Knowing What’s In The Box

Insights Why Entangled Photon-Polarization Qubits Violate Bell’s Inequality

Insights Quantum Entanglement is a Kinematic Fact, not a Dynamical Effect

Can gravitational lensing detect dark matter?

Discussion

Similar threads

Undergrad Can gravitational lensing detect Very small deviations in light propagation?

Undergrad Why not detect dark matter in our own galaxy?

Graduate Did the LUX Dark Matter Experiment Fail to Detect Dark Matter?

Undergrad Using gravitational lensing to detect dark energy effects

Undergrad Can Gravitational Lensing Be Caused by Refraction?

Undergrad Dark Matter: Can Gravitational Field Be Generated?

High School Can gravitational lensing delays measure expansion faster than expected?

Graduate Can Gravitational Lensing Cause a Star to Appear Twice Simultaneously?

Graduate Can you detect dark energy and dark matter within a single galaxy?

Graduate Singularities, dark matter, and dark energy. A connection?