... images of galaxies in the distant background, a team of astronomers has calculated ... subtly distorts space like a funhouse mirror and warps images of background galaxies ...
... capture the most ancient light of the cosmos, the cosmic microwave background (CMB ... While X-ray data from ESAт??s XMM-Newton first hinted at the presence of hot gas ...
... X-rays from Chandra are in pink, and radio data from the VLA are colored green. ... The background image shows optical observations from the SDSS. ...
... galaxy cluster Abell 2744 taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the European Southern Observatoryт??s Very Large Telescope, with X-ray data from NASAт??s Chandra X-ray Observatory and a mathematical reconstruction of the location of dark matter ...
... Both teams combined the X-ray observations of the normal matter in the cluster with gravitational lensing information ... the material in the galaxy cluster, both normal and dark matter, to bend and distort the optical light from background galaxies ...
... space and brighten and magnify images of nearly 3,000 distant background galaxies ... and magnify images of far more distant background galaxies as they looked over 12 ...
... NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory was used to detect the hot gas. ... Hawaii to infer the location of dark matter by measuring the gravitationally lensed light from more distant background galaxies ...
... with previous studies, yielded 135 multiple images of 42 background galaxies ... such that it lenses all of these background galaxies to their observed positions ... because of their strong X-ray emission, indicating they contain large quantities of ...
... X-rays were captured by Swift's X-Ray Telescope, which began observing the field 3.4 minutes after the Burst Alert Telescope detected the blast. ...