On the Missing Area of the Bullet Cluster

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2026-08-28
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22141463
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Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena
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On the Missing Area of the Bullet Cluster

Brahim Benaissa
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena
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On the Missing Area of the Bullet Cluster

Brahim Benaissa
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Abstract

The Bullet Cluster is widely regarded as direct empirical evidence for non baryonic dark matter. We test the Mezzi framework, which poses the "missing mass"problem as a "missing area", where a distant observer measures the baryonic density correctly but integrates it over compressed coordinates, underestimating the true mass. We correct the apparent compression via a nonlinear Area Jacobian, built from direct ray tracing of the vacuum flow along the Light’s trajectory and governed by a single universal constant, C≈ 377derived in a previous study on the 175 SPARC rotation curves. The resulting True Frame convergence map reproduces the observed strong lensing regions (κ≥ 1) centered on the collisionless galaxies, with an overall mass correction of η≈ 4.5, without dark matter or modified gravity. The code is available at https://github.com/Brahim-Benaissa/Mezzi_Bullet_Cluster

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