Published:
March 29, 2010
 To verify that multiple images are one object that's been gravitationally lensed, astronomers model the foreground lens object and the background object. The Sloan Lens ACS Survey (SLACS) survey imaged gravitational lens candidates with the Hubble Space Telescope (left panels) and compared them to computational models (right panels). The illustration shows how a massive object lenses light from a galaxy.
Photo by A. Boltan, for the SLACS team and NASA/ESA; Astronomy: Roen Kelly |
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