What is Gravitational Lensing?(LBNL Summer Lecture Series)
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OSTI ID:987755
- OSTI/ DOE
- Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics, Berkely, California, United States
July 28, 2009 Berkeley Lab Summer Lecture Series: Gravitational lensing is explained by Einstein's general theory of relativity: galaxies and clusters of galaxies, which are very massive objects, act on spacetime by causing it to become curved. Alexie Leauthaud and Reiko Nakajima, astrophysicists with the Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics, will discuss how scientists use gravitational lensing to investigate the nature of dark energy and dark matter in the universe.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231
- OSTI ID:
- 987755
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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