Dissecting a Supermassive Black Hole with natural magnifying glasses

[PeterM]

Now this is pretty amazing stuff, inside the disc of a Supermassive Black Hole, 10 billion lightyears away with detail 1000 times better than the best scopes in the world....

http://www.eso.org/public/outreach/press-rel/pr-2008/pr-47-08.html

PeterM

[astroron]

Absalutly Fabulous :eyepop:
Thanks for posting Peter:thumbsup:
Ron

[Paddy]

Quite a mind boggling bit of analysis!

[xelasnave]

Thanks for that Peter I have not read past the abstract yet but this is real exciting stuff..thanks for posting.
alex

[jungle11]

I came across the article on science daily this morning, read the title
'What! I didn't know you could daisy chain some magifying glasses in front of a telescope to increase mag! Why weren't we doing this 500 years ago!?!'
Then i read on...gravitational lensing, that's more like it:ashamed::lol:

Pretty amazing stuff!