11 September 2020
New data suggests there is something missing from dark matter theories
... and scientists have been using them to compare numerical simulations of the Universe with observations of gravitational lensing. Gravitational lensing is a phenomena astronomers use to see distant background objects where something in the foreground...
August 2018
Exoplanet census promises radical discoveries
... is represented by the red curve in the top panel of Figure 2 (when the images are resolved, this is called gravitational lensing, and when they are not resolved, it is called microlensing). The third panel of Figure 2 shows the situation...
17 December 2018
Innovative mission to view the surface of exoplanets using small sats
...through space will bend if it passes near sufficiently massive objects; an effect known as gravitational lensing. Simply put, mass bends light. The method behind gravitational lensing is used in every day situations all around us. For example, normal...
22 June 2018
Most precise test of Einstein’s general relativity outside Milky Way
... is bent is one of the predictions of his theory of general relativity that was published a few years later. Hundreds of gravitational lenses are currently known and about half a dozen of them are partial Einstein rings, however most are...
12 August 2020
Distant Milky Way look-alike is a breakthrough in the field of galaxy formation
... when the Universe was just 1.4 billion years old, SPT0418-47 was spotted by scientists using a method known as gravitational lensing. Gravitational lens occur when a huge amount of matter, like a cluster of galaxies, creates...
18 April 2016
New Earth-like planet found in GJ 832 planetary system
... traditional methods used (transit, direct imaging, gravitational lensing and radial velocity) to find these smaller ...it is assumed to play the same role of setting gravitational equilibrium in the system. Artistic representation of the exoplanet ...
