Light travels to us in more or less a straight line from its point of origin to our eyes or astronomical instruments. When light racing through space encounters a massive object, however, like a black ...

Astronomers have discovered seven distant galaxies aligned with a galaxy cluster; together, they form one of the most unique configurations of galaxies ever seen. This arrangement of warped and ...

Decades ago, Albert Einstein predicted gravitational lenses as part of his theory of general relativity. Another physicist at the time predicted that if the Earth and the gravitational lens, as well ...

A team of international scientists has discovered a rare cosmic formation which has never been seen before. Only about a dozen Einstein Crosses have been found in the universe to date. This makes them ...

Astronomers are pulling back the curtain on two of the universe’s biggest mysteries: how planets are born and how invisible matter shapes galaxies. Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and ...

A group of astronomers has uncovered a rare celestial configuration that’s rewriting what we know about how dark matter shapes the universe. Hidden inside a cosmic mirage known as an Einstein Cross, ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

Astronomers have just spotted a phenomenon in the sky that Albert Einstein predicted we’d never see — and it’s one of dozens observed so far. The four light blue spots surrounding the little orange ...

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This work, which verifies one of the predictions of Einstein's General Relativity, is to be published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics. The General Theory of Relativity, published by Albert ...

(Nanowerk News) An international team of researchers led by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has measured, with unprecedented accuracy, the gravitational redshift of the Sun, a change in ...