Astronomers See the Same Supernova Four Times Thanks to a Gravitational Lenswww.universetoday.comexternal-link MyNameIsFred ( @fred@beehaw.org ) Space • edit-21 year ago message-square6arrow-up1151
arrow-up1151external-linkAstronomers See the Same Supernova Four Times Thanks to a Gravitational Lenswww.universetoday.com MyNameIsFred ( @fred@beehaw.org ) Space • edit-21 year ago message-square6
Heres another article that popped up in my feeds on the same event with a bit more detail too> https://astronomynow.com/2023/06/19/supernova-magnified-25-times-and-split-into-multiple-images-by-galactic-lens/
minus-square niktemadur ( @niktemadur@kbin.social ) linkfedilink8•1 year agoThe odds of a supernova lining up perfectly to generate an Einstein Cross right from our vantage point are… well… they’re astronomical, that’s what they are. That thing is so distant, I would’ve thought it would be a quasar, instead of a supernova.
The odds of a supernova lining up perfectly to generate an Einstein Cross right from our vantage point are… well… they’re astronomical, that’s what they are.
That thing is so distant, I would’ve thought it would be a quasar, instead of a supernova.