Distortions Detect Dark Matter

Gravitational lensing is allowing us to detect things we otherwise wouldn't be able to see. Oxford University’s Dr Lance Miller explains to Andrew Pontzen how we can use...

25 January 2012

Interview with

Dr Lance Miller, Oxford University

Part of the show Meeting MIRI and Detecting Dark Matter

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The distribution of mass in the Hubble Space Telescope COSMOS survey, determined from measurements of weak gravitational lensing. The field of view covers about nine times the size of the full moon, and the third dimension stretches from redshift z=0...

Credit:

NASA/ESA/Richard Massey

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Gravitational lensing is allowing us to detect things we otherwise wouldn't be able to see. Oxford University's Dr Lance Miller explains to Andrew Pontzen how we can use distortions caused by the gravitational pull of dark matter to explore its distribution...