What is gravitational lensing — and how it helped prove Einstein right
Massive objects become the astrophysicists’ extra lenses.
Tag: gravitational lensing
Distant ‘Milky Way Look-Alike’ Challenges Theories of Galaxy Formation
The discovery of a calm galaxy so early in the Universe’s history calls into question our theories of how galaxies ...
Dark matter is colder than we thought — and we know this thanks to Einsteins crosses
New Hubble study takes us one step closer to understanding the mysterious dark matter.
If we want to find the “missing” dark matter, we have to look beyongblack holes
Dark matter makes up most of the universe -- and we still don't really know what it is.
Researchers discover a planet so big it might not be a planet after all
Too big for a planet, too small for a star.
An old looking galaxy found in a young Universe
Many people change a lot after their youth... and so to did our Universe. Nowadays, galaxies contain both dust and ...
NASA’s great observatories combine to probe deeper in the Universe
These are NASA Hubble Space Telescope natural-color images of four target galaxy clusters that are part ...
Massive dark energy survey launched set to probe its secrets
Dark energy is the mysterious force that drives the Universe's expansion at an ever increased pace. Probing and understanding this ...
Extremely rare double Einstein ring imaged by Hubble
(c) NASA/ESA Hubble just never ceases to surprise. The latest astronomical find discovered using the ever ...
Farthest known object in the Universe is 13.3 billion years old
The inset at left shows a close-up of the young dwarf galaxy. This image is a ...
Faint galaxy sheds light on the dawn of the Universe – many more to be found
The first galaxies formed very fast after the Big Bang - in cosmic time, that is. It's estimated that the ...
Nomad planets may litter Milky Way
According to a recent study published by researchers from the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC), our galaxy ...
Astronomers use massive objects in space as huge telescopes, find brightest galaxy via gravity lens
Whenever a massive object, with an equally massive gravitational pull, like black holes or galaxy clusters, falls between an observer, ...
Hubble captures disk of matter around black hole – birth of a quasar
[caption id="attachment_9813" align="alignnone" width="499" caption="This picture shows a quasar that has been gravitationally lensed by a galaxy in the foreground, ...