Sentences with phrase «as a gravitational lens millions»

This is made up largely of dark matter and is so massive that it bends light around itself and acts as a gravitational lens millions of light years in diameter.

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Researchers from the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have for the first time shown that neural networks — a form of artificial intelligence — can accurately analyze the complex distortions in spacetime known as gravitational lenses 10 million times faster than traditional methods.