Quote (darkfire @ Jan 16 2012 10:35pm)
It suggests there is a flaw in our understanding of cosmology. I'll give you an (almost certainly false) explanation to disprove. Show me that gravitational distortion isn't smoothing out the image so much that we can't tell that there actually are silhouettes.
Gravity doesn't affect light unless it gets close to a strong source of it, and even then it only bends the path of it. Unless you get near a black hole (which are hoaxes I might add).