Back to Show
PBS Space Time
The Strange Universe of Gravitational Lensing
In the world of our mind’s eye, light travels in a straight line. In reality, spacetime is deflected and magnified through the lens of gravity. Find out how this works and what it allows us to learn about our universe in this episode of Space Time.
Support Provided By
10:27
The double slit experiment radically changed the way we understand reality.
5:49
In 2015 LIGO announced the first detection of a gravitational wave... What happens next?
10:15
On July 4th 2016, the Juno spacecraft finally entered orbit around the planet Jupiter.
11:02
Planck's Length is the length below which the concept of length loses its meaning. Huh?
7:49
What is the Higgs field and why is it a fundamental part of our universe?
9:42
Contrary to how we perceive reality, spacetime is deflected through the lens of gravity