Catching Slippery Gravity with Fast Radio Bursts
Why is the Universe’s expansion accelerating? We have no idea! But, maybe fast radio bursts can provide some clues.
An Extreme, Distant Quasar in the Cosmic House of Mirrors
Step into the cosmic house of mirrors at this quasar party at dawn!
Uncovering a galaxy’s history, from half a Universe away
Today’s guest post explores a galaxy whose mysterious clump is puzzling astronomers who are trying to pinpoint its origin.
Reanalyzing LIGO-Virgo gravitational wave events under the new lens of… lensing!
Gravitational lensing can bend gravitational waves too! Do any of the recent LIGO-Virgo detections show evidence of lensing? Find out…
The Crowded Cosmos: Effects of Blended Galaxies on Cosmic Shear
In today’s paper, we learn how overlapping galaxies affect weak lensing measurements that the LSST will make.
HOLISMOKES, Lenses Ahoy! – Using Neural Networks to find Strong Gravitational Lenses
In today’s paper, we learn how to search for strong gravitational lenses in the cosmic haystack of galaxies