Gravitational Lensing
Clash of Clusters Separates Dark Matter From Ordinary Matter
[/caption] A powerful collision of galaxy clusters captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory provides evidence for…
Hubble Survey of Gravitational Lenses Yields Measure of Dark Matter in Distant Galaxies
[/caption] An international team of astronomers have compiled the largest-ever single collection of "gravitational lens" galaxies, and their survey yielded…
Record Breaking “Dark Matter Web” Structures Observed Spanning 270 Million Light Years Across
It is well documented that dark matter makes up the majority of the mass in our universe. The big problem…
Another Solar System Found with Saturn and Jupiter-Sized Planets
As the search for extrasolar planets continues, researchers are finding systems more and more like our own Solar System. And…
Hubble Sees an Ancient Elliptical Galaxy
As galaxies come together through successive mergers they take on the splendid spiral shape like our own Milky Way. Keep…
Forget Black Holes, How Do You Find A Wormhole?
Finding a black hole is an easy task... compared with searching for a wormhole. Suspected black holes have a massive…
Using Gravity to Find Planets in the Habitable Zone
Astronomers have several techniques to discover planets. But one of the least used so far, gravitational microlensing, might be just…
Searching for Objects Even Stranger Than Black Holes
Black holes are already plenty bizarre. Imagine all the mass of several suns compressed down into an object of potentially…
Most Distant Galaxies Ever Seen
Astronomers announced today that they've located the most distant galaxies ever seen, 13.2 billion light-years away, formed when the Universe…
Spitzer Locates a Binary Pair of Black Holes
A clever trick has enabled NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope to calculate the distance to a distant object, confirming that it's…