The James Webb Space Telescope captured this stunning image of a galaxy cluster so massive that it serves a gravitational ...

The gravitational lens created by the galaxy in the foreground creates four images of the active galaxy, each with a bright galactic core and two large jets of material extending from it.

SEE ALSO: The James Webb telescope's first stunning cosmic images are here Albert Einstein predicted the effect of gravitational lensing over a century ago. Some of the galaxies we can view below ...

In what is the first discovery of an Einstein zig-zag lens in the universe, a team of international astronomers have sighted two galaxies which are aligned in a way where their gravity acts as a ...

The story of this particular discovery started back in 2004 when fellow Durham University astronomer, Professor Alastair Edge, noticed a giant arc of a gravitational lens when reviewing images of ...

it will bend light to such a degree that you might see multiple images of the same light source. That’s called strong gravitational lensing. There is also an effect called weak gravitational ...

The image is faint but you can make out two outer arcs and then two inner arcs close to the centre of the galaxy nucleus. That’s a double gravitational lens. Double gravitational lensing could ...

Peer close enough to the center of a new image, published Monday by one of the space agencies that runs Hubble, and out pops the tell-tale signs of a distortion known as gravitational lensing.

Plans are underway at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to send solar sails to the solar gravitational lens focus to make the first ever image of an exoplanet’s surface. Currently, the James ...

The faint light could only be seen because of the gravitational-lensing effect of a galaxy that lies between Earth and the supernova. The scientists, whose research is described in Nature, spotted the ...

The images created by the solar gravitational lens would be spread out over tens of kilometers of space, so the spacecraft would have to scan the entire field to build up a complete mosaic image.