New Type Ia supernova discovered using gravitational lensing

Monday, July 24, 2017 - 08:32 in Astronomy & Space

(Phys.org)—Using gravitational lensing, an international team of astronomers has detected a new Type Ia supernova. The newly discovered lensed supernova was found behind the galaxy cluster known as MOO J1014+0038. The findings were detailed in a paper published July 14 on the arXiv pre-print repository.

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