Tag: weak lensing

• Finding all the matter in the cosmos — even the invisible stuff

  [ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] “Weak Lensing” Helps Astronomers Map the Mass of the Universe By making galaxies a little bit brighter, it points the way to elusive galaxies and lets us detect that…

  Matthew R. Francis

  June 29, 2016

  Smithsonian Magazine

  cosmology, dark matter, gravitational lensing, large scale structure, LSST, weak lensing