Invisible Object Weighing a Million Suns: Gravity Acts as a Magnifying Glass ⚡ экспресс
Original: "A million-solar-mass object detected at cosmological distance using gravitational imaging"
Astronomers have measured the mass of an invisible object weighing a million Suns for the first time by how it distorts light from a distant galaxy.
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Astronomers have found a tiny invisible object weighing a million Suns in the Universe — by how it warped the light from a distant galaxy. This “gravitational magnifying glass” allowed them to weigh it with an accuracy of 3%. That’s how we can hunt for dark matter and understand what small galaxies are made of.
🎯 This object’s mass — roughly a million Suns — is a drop in the ocean by cosmic standards. For comparison, the Milky Way is a million times heavier, weighing in at about a trillion Suns.