Non-Doppler Redshift and Dark Matter in the Coma Cluster

TL;DR

This paper suggests that non-Doppler redshift effects can explain the observed galaxy redshifts in the Coma cluster, potentially eliminating the need for dark matter to account for cluster stability.

Contribution

It introduces a non-Doppler redshift explanation for galaxy redshifts in the Coma cluster, challenging the traditional dark matter interpretation.

Findings

Most galaxy redshifts in the Coma cluster are caused by non-Doppler effects.

Non-Doppler redshift can account for the observed galaxy velocities without dark matter.

Numerical estimations support the non-Doppler redshift explanation.

Abstract

In 1929 Zwicky proposed a tired light theory to interpret the Hubble law (Hubble 1929). The key of the tired light theory is to interpret the observed redshift of galaxy as the non-Doppler effect. But the derivation of the dark matter in the Coma cluster proposed by Zwicky in 1933 was based on the interpretation that redshifts of galaxies were the Doppler effect, and the non-Doppler effect was not considered at all. However, if there is a reasonable non-Doppler effect and the great majority of the observed redshifts of galaxies in the Coma cluster can be interpreted by the non-Doppler effect, then it's not needed to introduce the dark matter in the Coma cluster to keep the stability of the cluster. In this paper it is shown that the great majority of the redshifts of galaxies in the Coma cluster are caused by the non-Doppler redshift proposed by Zheng (2013), and a numerical estimation of the redshifts of galaxies in the Coma cluster is presented.