The James Webb Space Telescope captured three copies of the same distant galaxy cluster mid supernova through the quirky natural phenomenon of gravitational lensing. Credit: ESA / NASA / CSA / P.

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When a gravitational lens magnifies a background galaxy, why don't we see the object doing the lensing, as we would if looking through an optical lens? Robert Hertrick Pittsburgh Gravitational lensing ...

Maunakea, Hawai’i – Astronomers have captured a bizarre image of a supernova, the powerful explosion of a star, whose light was so warped by the gravity of a galaxy that it appears as multiple images ...

Astronomers are living in a golden age of bigger and better telescopes. But even our most advanced technology pales in comparison to the power of nature’s own “cosmic magnifying glasses” – strong ...

A new way to measure the cosmic expansion rate could help resolve a long-standing cosmological crisis. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope reveals the funny things that galaxies can achieve when they huddle together. When galaxies are far enough away, the 33-year old observatory gets a sort of ...

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, funded by the US National Science Foundation and US Department of Energy's Office of Science, will add an unprecedented amount of cosmological data to the study of ...

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Astronomers just found another case of something out there bigger than a supermassive black hole: ultramassive black holes, which are the true behemoths of the Universe, clocking in at over 10 billion ...