Sentences with phrase «effect called gravitational lensing»

A peculiar effect called gravitational lensing has allowed astronomers to see this galaxy in much greater detail.

Although dark matter does not reflect light — hence the name — astronomers can detect the way its gravity bends the light of distant stars behind it, an effect called gravitational lensing.

The huge mass of the cluster distorts and magnifies the light from galaxies that lie behind it due to an effect called gravitational lensing.

The new image (right) is the first in a series of «Frontier Field» images, which take advantage of an effect called gravitational lensing to peer further into the universe than ever before.

Both the galaxy and the galaxy cluster are acting like a giant «cosmic lens,» bending and magnifying light from the supernova behind it, an effect called gravitational lensing.

The researchers made the discovery using an effect called gravitational lensing to see the incredibly faint object, which was born just after the Big Bang.

To explain the unique, four - up projection, the scientists determined a galaxy cluster and one of its massive elliptical members are gravitationally bending and magnifying the light from the supernova behind it, through an effect called gravitational lensing.