NASA’s Roman to Peer Into Cosmic ‘Lenses’ to Better Define Dark Matter - NASA

A funky effect Einstein predicted, known as gravitational lensing — when a foreground galaxy magnifies more distant galaxies behind it — will soon become common when NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space ...

By · · 1 min read
NASA’s Roman to Peer Into Cosmic ‘Lenses’ to Better Define Dark Matter - NASA

Source: NASA

A funky effect Einstein predicted, known as gravitational lensing — when a foreground galaxy magnifies more distant galaxies behind it — will soon become common when NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope begins science operations in 2027 and produces vast surveys of the cosmos. A particular subset of gravitational lenses, known as strong lenses, is […]