gravitational lens or solar gravity lens (SGL) is a theoretical method of using the Sun as a large lens with a physical effect called gravitational lensing... 5 KB (557 words) - 01:05, 15 April 2024 |
from the observer to the lens. For extragalactic lenses, these must be angular diameter distances. In strong gravitational lensing, this equation can have... 24 KB (5,185 words) - 23:08, 28 June 2023 |
Gravitational microlensing is an astronomical phenomenon caused by the gravitational lens effect. It can be used to detect objects that range from the... 53 KB (7,045 words) - 21:16, 22 February 2024 |
Strong gravitational lensing is a gravitational lensing effect that is strong enough to produce multiple images, arcs, or Einstein rings. Generally, for... 6 KB (672 words) - 05:29, 8 March 2024 |
Einstein ring (redirect from Einstein lens) to the Earth. Due to gravitational lensing, the light is diverted, making it seem to come from different places. If source, lens, and observer are all... 20 KB (2,393 words) - 05:33, 8 March 2024 |
General relativity (section Gravitational lensing) and the propagation of light, and include gravitational time dilation, gravitational lensing, the gravitational redshift of light, the Shapiro time delay... 194 KB (22,670 words) - 00:20, 11 May 2024 |
Dark matter (section Gravitational lensing) effects occur in the context of formation and evolution of galaxies, gravitational lensing, the observable universe's current structure, mass position in galactic... 140 KB (15,257 words) - 09:25, 6 May 2024 |
Gravity (redirect from Gravitational interaction) physics. Gravitation, also known as gravitational attraction, is the mutual attraction between all masses in the universe. Gravity is the gravitational attraction... 69 KB (7,367 words) - 09:14, 14 April 2024 |
Black hole (redirect from Gravitationally completely collapsed star) observation of effects caused by a strong gravitational field in their vicinity. One such effect is gravitational lensing: The deformation of spacetime around... 165 KB (18,700 words) - 15:57, 13 May 2024 |
Introduction to general relativity (redirect from Einstein's theory of gravitation) effects of gravity, such as gravitational waves, gravitational lensing and an effect of gravity on time known as gravitational time dilation. Many of these... 72 KB (9,131 words) - 03:20, 29 April 2024 |
Twin Quasar (category Gravitational lensing) 1919. It is a quasar that appears as two images, a result from gravitational lensing caused by the galaxy YGKOW G1 that is located directly between Earth... 11 KB (1,195 words) - 05:13, 17 December 2023 |
Tests of general relativity (redirect from Gravitational deflection of light) of the perihelion of Mercury, the bending of light in gravitational fields, and the gravitational redshift. The precession of Mercury was already known;... 103 KB (12,446 words) - 16:02, 22 April 2024 |
Einstein Cross (category Gravitational lensing) see) appear in the middle of the foreground galaxy due to strong gravitational lensing. This system was discovered by John Huchra and coworkers in 1985... 6 KB (490 words) - 15:57, 7 February 2024 |
Keck Telescope revealed that this system is gravitationally lensed. A study of the gravitational lensing of this system suggests that the light emitted... 66 KB (7,916 words) - 22:38, 13 April 2024 |
A gravitational singularity, spacetime singularity or simply singularity is a condition in which gravity is predicted to be so intense that spacetime... 23 KB (2,882 words) - 05:35, 2 May 2024 |
Fritz Zwicky (section Gravitational lenses) to discover the existence of a gravitational anomaly, which he termed dunkle Materie 'dark matter'. The gravitational anomaly surfaced due to the excessive... 41 KB (4,518 words) - 17:20, 14 May 2024 |
Einstein radius (category Gravitational lensing) a characteristic angle for gravitational lensing in general, as typical distances between images in gravitational lensing are of the order of the Einstein... 8 KB (1,161 words) - 15:39, 31 January 2024 |
Galaxy cluster (section Gravitational lensing) also used for their strong gravitational potential as gravitational lenses to boost the reach of telescopes. The gravitational distortion of space-time... 19 KB (1,647 words) - 14:00, 20 March 2024 |
Jürgen Ehlers (section Gravitational lensing) particular, he made contributions to cosmology, the theory of gravitational lenses and gravitational waves. His principal concern was to clarify general relativity's... 49 KB (5,777 words) - 10:49, 2 December 2023 |
Cosmic string (section Gravitation) the gravitational potential of a straight string vanishes: there is no gravitational force on static surrounding matter. The only gravitational effect... 26 KB (3,351 words) - 09:39, 1 May 2024 |
principle of equivalence of gravitational and inertial mass and uses it to predict gravitational lensing and gravitational redshift, historically known... 136 KB (13,658 words) - 13:37, 2 May 2024 |
Abell 1201 BCG (category Gravitational lensing) 5 kpc rising to 360 km s−1 at 20 kpc distance. The BCG also acts as a gravitational lens, bending the light of a more distant background galaxy (at redshift... 9 KB (863 words) - 15:57, 21 March 2024 |
FOCAL (spacecraft) (category Gravitational lensing) Outgoing Cyclopean Astronomical Lens) is a proposed space telescope that would use the Sun as a gravity lens. The gravitational lens effect was first derived... 6 KB (642 words) - 21:14, 21 June 2023 |
Xallarap (category Gravitational lensing) Xallarap is a variation in a gravitational lensing observation caused by the orbital motion of the source. A more traditional and similar effect, parallax... 3 KB (454 words) - 22:04, 7 December 2023 |