Identifying an arc would confirm that indeed a milli-lens is magnifying the ultra-fast jet clumps spewing from a supermassive black hole. "We couldn't do studies like these without a university ...

Researchers using the Hubble telescope say that there may be as many as 500,000 naturally occurring "lenses" visible from Earth, which give them a glimpse far deeper into the distant universe than ...

That means that astronomers can use the gravitational lensing arising from galactic clusters as natural cosmic magnifying glasses. This has made it an important tool for the investigation of the ...

Seven unique galaxies (numbered 1 through 7), appear through the lens. These are located far beyond, at distances from 7.6 to 12 billion light years away from Earth, approaching the limit of the ...

This happens when an object like a galaxy or a galaxy cluster has so much mass that it bends space-time, acting like a magnifying glass ... better lens than we have ever seen before,” said ...