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Saturday Quote: Leaky Continental Plate, Talking Monkey, Einstein Ring
This new image features a rare cosmic phenomenon known as the Einstein Ring. At first, what appears to be a single galaxy of strange shapes is actually two galaxies separated far apart. The nearby galaxies sit in the center of the image, but the galaxies in the more distant background appear to be wrapped around the galaxies in the more…
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Space & Cosmos
Researchers develop glass sensors for Einstein telescopes
Jena researchers manufacture highly sensitive resonators made entirely of glass for the vibration sensors of the Einstein telescope. Credit: Fraunhofer IOF Starting in 2035, Einstein Telescope will be able to study gravitational waves with unprecedented accuracy. For telescopes, Jena researchers produced the first highly sensitive sensor made of glass. Gravitational waves are space-time distortions caused by extreme astrophysical events such…
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Space & Cosmos
Einstein predicted how gravity would work on the largest scales. And he was right, new research suggests
The bright band of the Milky Way galaxy is in the background of the Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. Credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/RT Sparks When Albert Einstein introduced the theory of general relativity in 1915, it changed the way we view the universe. His model of gravity showed that Newtonian gravity, which has dominated astronomy and physics…
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