Cosmic magnifying effect to unlock dark matter mysteries with Roman telescope

Cosmic magnifying effect to unlock dark matter mysteries with Roman telescope

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Louis, MO (SPX) Mon Jun 17, 2025

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, set to begin science operations in 2027, is expected to uncover more than 160,000 gravitational lenses-cosmic alignments where a foreground galaxy bends and magnifies the light of a background galaxy. Researchers led by Bryce Wedig, a physics graduate student at Washington University in St. Louis, aim to harness these rare phenomena to probe the structur

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