The first gravitational lens, a phenomenon in which light from a distant object is bent around a massive foreground object, was discovered in 1979 by a team led by Dr. Dennis Walsh from The University ...

Combining a double natural “magnifying glass” with the power of ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers have scrutinised the inner parts of the disc around a supermassive black hole 10 billion ...

One of the features of the OS X Dock is magnification—enable it in the Dock System Preferences panel, and icons in your Dock will magnify as you move your mouse over them. Some people love this effect ...

Astronomers have shown how gravitational lensing allows us to see the faintest and most distant galaxies, helping us to understand the origin of the Universe. Astronomers have shown how gravitational ...