Seeing the Universe Through New Lenses
Thursday, May 14, 2020 - 16:30
in Astronomy & Space
Like crystal balls for the universe’s deeper mysteries, galaxies and other massive space objects can serve as lenses to more distant objects and phenomena along the same path, bending light in revelatory ways. Gravitational lensing was first theorized by Albert Einstein more than 100 years ago to describe how light bends when it travels past […]