Astronomers have detected a supernova 10 billion light years from Earth using gravitational lensing, a method that bends and magnifies light from distant objects through the gravitational fields of ...

Planets usually stay close to their host stars, tracing steady paths shaped by gravity. Yet some planets break free and drift alone through the Milky Way. Astronomers call these objects free-floating ...

Add independent.com on Google Add the SB Independent as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dark matter is a cornerstone of modern cosmology, successfully explaining the ...

Planets are usually defined by the star they orbit. Take away the star, and a planet becomes almost impossible to find. This is because almost every method astronomers use to detect planets depends on ...

Most of the exoplanets we’ve discovered have been in relatively tight orbits around their host stars, allowing us to track them as they repeatedly loop around them. But we’ve also discovered a handful ...

Learn how a "black hole 30 billion times the mass of the sun in a galaxy 2 billion light years away" using gravitational lensing, according to Durham University. Credit: Durham University 'SNL' mocks ...

(Phys.org) -- An international team of researchers led by Masamune Oguri at Kavli IPMU and Naohisa Inada at Nara National College of Technology conduced an unprecedented survey of gravitationally ...

Abstract: A new type of beamforming network (BFN) based on three-dimensional (3D) discrete lenses is introduced and numerically analyzed in this paper as an antenna system capable of generating ...

Day 24 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: A Gravitational Lens. Galaxies in this James Webb Space Telescope image appear to be stretched into arcs and lines, their appearance warped and ...