Gravitational Lens
A New Record! Hubble Detects an Individual Star From a Time When the Universe Was Less Than a Billion Years Old
A star that sounds as if it came from "The Lord of the Rings" now marks one of the Hubble…
If We Used the Sun as a Gravitational Lens Telescope, This is What a Planet at Proxima Centauri Would Look Like
A recent study shows how the Sun could be used as a gravitational lens to take direct images of nearby…
Advanced Civilizations Could be Communicating with Neutrino Beams. Transmitted by Clouds of Satellites Around Neutron Stars or Black Holes
In the ongoing search for intelligent life, a new study recommends that we look for signs of an advanced civilization…
Quasars with a Double-Image Gravitational Lens Could Help Finally Figure out how Fast the Universe is Expanding
How fast is the Universe expanding? That's a question that astronomers haven't been able to answer accurately. They have a…
Thanks to a Gravitational Lens, Astronomers Can See an Individual Star 9 Billion Light-Years Away
In a recent study, a team of international astronomers used the gravitational lensing technique to study the most distant individual…
Gravitational Lensing Provides Rare Glimpse Into Interiors of Black Holes
An international team of scientists relied on a new kind of gravitational lensing to conduct a detailed study of a…
Gravitational Astronomy? How Detecting Gravitational Waves Changes Everything
We’ve now had multiple detections of gravitational waves, opening up a whole new field: gravitational astronomy. We talk about the…
Are There Dark Matter Galaxies? ft. Sarah Pearson from Space with Sarah
We know there’s dark matter, and there are galaxies, but are there galaxies entirely made up of dark matter? Astronomer…
Gallery: Incredible Mirages In Space Show Dark Matter, Supernovas And Galaxies
How can an exploding star appear far brighter than expected? This question vexed astronomers since the discovery of PS1-10afx, supernova that was…
Weekly Space Hangout – January 10, 2014: Wake Up, Rosetta! & Top Stories from AAS
Host: Fraser Cain Guests: David Dickinson, Amy Shira Teitel, Scott Lewis, Brian Koberlein, special guest Ruth McAvinia from the ESA…