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Astronomers have glimpsed gravitational microlensing

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7 June 2017

 

Scientists have confirmed one of Albert Einstein's century-old theories by witnessing with the Hubble Space Telescope a phenomenon he thought would never be possible to see.

 

Astronomers have now glimpsed for the first time a distant star's light bending and revealing its mass when an object passes in front of it, known as "gravitational microlensing".

 

It approves century-old Albert Einstein's theory of gravitational waves.

 

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