The warped ways of cosmic light
Wednesday, March 2, 2011 - 15:01
in Astronomy & Space
Albert Einstein predicted them, modern giant telescopes detected them and Klaus Dolag simulates them on a computer: gravitational lenses. The academic staff member at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching and at the University Observatory Munich uses this physical phenomenon to such ends as weighing galaxy clusters and probing that ominous substance known as dark matter.