Dissecting a Supermassive Black Hole with natural magnifying glasses

PeterM · #1 15-12-2008, 03:07 PM

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/p.../pr-47-08.html

PeterM

astroron (Ron) · #2 15-12-2008, 03:20 PM

Absalutly Fabulous

Thanks for posting Peter

Ron

Paddy (Patrick) · #3 15-12-2008, 04:08 PM

Quite a mind boggling bit of analysis!

xelasnave · #4 15-12-2008, 05:21 PM

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

jungle11 (Greg) · #5 15-12-2008, 05:34 PM

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

Pretty amazing stuff!