Now, researchers have created the world's smallest magnifying glass, which focuses light a billion times more tightly, down to the scale of single atoms. Skip to main content.

Cosmic magnifying glasses could shed light on the origin of the Universe by SpaceRef January 13, 2011. Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X; ...

Just like a magnifying glass, lensed light can be magnified or de-magnified. If the light coming towards us from a distant source is lensed by a massive galaxy located in between, ...

The gravity of a galaxy two-and-a-half billion light-years away has acted like a cosmic magnifying glass to amplify the light of a distant supernova.