Could the bending of light be wrong

sgtheory

Hello,
I am sure we have got something wrong with how light behaves and bends.
I hope you will see what I mean if you follow my reasoning.
Eddington’s results for the bending of light when viewing that eventful eclipse gave him a one arc sec deflection, as you will know for the stars he was able to see, the ones a slight distance from the suns disc edge. He worked out a slightly greater deflection for ones that would be nearer.
The main thing that got me thinking was the ones he could see and this small one arc sec bend. Was it so small at a greater distance and what would we be able to view. I worked it out if my maths is right that the deflection of one arc sec would be just over 45 million KM after only one light year, Parsec deflection 149.599 KM in 3.26 Lys.
If one star was the correct distance behind another but a small distance to one side in our field of view on Earth we would receive its light in a straight line, but what would we receive of the light that past close to the outer side of the one closer to us. Would we see three stars when there is only two. It probably would have to bend very close around the near one so we end up seeing only two stars, but likely one a bit fuzzy.
I am aware of the Gravitational lens effect where more than one image of some quasars are viewed because of the gravitational effect of a galaxy.
Now I come to the problem with all of this.
Why is it that many stars are not duplicated?
Surely, over great distances, Brown dwarfs, Black Holes or other dark masses would be giving us millions of duplicates. At these distances even a small dark object that say only bent light at .01 of a arc sec would give a dual image of a star behind and slightly to one side.
In many star photos I have looked at there are many stars that are quite close to another that looks the same. I realise one be bigger but far behind but there are so many of these duel type. Taking gravity bends light could not many stars have between them and our view a dark object. The star does not have to be to many light years away for its light to bend round an object with a mass giving only .01 arc sec deflection.
Better still for what I am trying to put across is the following.
Any of these dark bodies if they could bend the light of a bright star that was light years directly behind it would produce a halo around the object. How many halo’s do we observe in the universe?
It does not add up at all. Gas clouds show complicated patterns with not one part giving a duplicated image.
It gives me this conclusion, either many stars and even galaxies must be duplicated and halos hard to see for some reason I have missed and parts of gas clouds duplicate on a smaller range than I can make out or gravity does not bend light. If it still does it is to a lesser amount.
What test did Eddington use to rule out that hot gaseous atmosphere of the sun was not acting as a lens. This same gas lens would bend radio waves as well as light, I say this because of the radio experiment they did from Mars. The signal would take the same amount of time if it was curved by a lens effect of the outer atmosphere of the sun or curved by gravity.
As for the duel images of those quasars it could well be the hot gases around these young galaxies is acting again like a lens and bending the light rather than gravity.
If gravity did have little or no effect on bending light this still does not have to alter no light leaving a black hole. Huge gravity might be able to stop light from initial transmission. Or black holes are black because they are giving out little light anyway. After all there is little to produce light, nothing is rushing around when its jammed together.
I know I am probably wrong but you try tell me why no halo’s
Regards,
David.

Could the bending of light be wrong

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