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3 Breaks tagged with gravitational lensing
The gravity of massive objects can magnify background objects, making them appear larger and brighter. Precise alignment between a background star and a...
Recent observations of 11 galaxy clusters reveal that cluster galaxies produce ten times more gravitational lensing effects than expected from cosmological...
Something has poked a hole in the interstellar gas in a distant galaxy. This allows us the first ever direct view of what young, massive stars look like in...