A rare gravitationally lensed supernova called SN 2025wny appears in five separate images due to the gravity of two ...

Flashes of gravitationally lensed starlight could act as cosmic lighthouses revealing the presence of binary supermassive ...

Supermassive black hole binaries form naturally when galaxies merge, but scientists have only confidently observed a very few of these systems that are widely separated. Black hole binaries that ...

Imagine looking through space and seeing a super-bright supernova that you weren’t expecting to see. Then, after taking measurements, you come to the conclusion that the supernova is way brighter than ...

The Bullet Cluster, originally detected using weak lensing NASA/CXC/CfA/M.Markevitch et al.; Optical: NASA/STScI; Magellan/U.Arizona/D.Clowe et al.; Lensing Map: NASA ...

A recently released image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope shows a distant galaxy that has been warped and distorted by a phenomenon called gravitational lensing. This phenomenon allows scientists ...

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have unexpectedly discovered the most distant galaxy that acts as a cosmic magnifying glass. This monster elliptical galaxy appears in the Hubble images ...