Flashes of gravitationally lensed starlight could act as cosmic lighthouses revealing the presence of binary supermassive ...

Gravitational lensing exposed a distant protocluster once seen as a faint smudge, revealing eleven dusty star-forming galaxies through combined ALMA and NSF VLA observations.

A burst of light in the deep sky is doing something it should not be able to do. It looks like one supernova, but it shows up ...

A rare gravitationally lensed supernova called SN 2025wny appears in five separate images due to the gravity of two ...

Supermassive black hole binaries form naturally when galaxies merge, but scientists have only confidently observed a very few of these systems that are widely separated. Black hole binaries that ...

Researchers propose a new technique to identify supermassive black hole binaries through gravitational lensing causing ...

Let's turn the sun into a telescope. In fact, we don't have to do any work—we just have to be in the right spot. But how can the sun be a telescope? The sun is not a mirror, but it is a lens. And we ...

Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarized light subjected to gravitational lensing effects, in addition to cosmic birefringence. On the far left, the white lines show the polarization pattern of the ...

Pictures of gravitational lenses from the AGEL survey. The pictures are centred on the foreground galaxy and include the object name. Each panel includes the confirmed distance to the foreground ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Gravitational lensing occurs when things with mass create ripples ...

Future missions will be able to find signatures of violating the parity-symmetry in the cosmic microwave background polarization more accurately after a pair of researchers has managed to take into ...