Tuesday, June 23, 2026

The Solar Gravitational Lens Could Map White Dwarfs and Black Holes

First ever image of a black hole, taken by the Event Horizon Telescope. Credit - EHT Collaboration

It feels like every few months we get to report on another academic paper coming out singing the praises of the Solar Gravitational SGL (SGL). Partly, this is due to Dr. Slava Turyshev’s astounding productivity in terms of pumping out academic articles, but partly because such a ground-breaking mission has lots of positive aspects, but also challenges that need to be addressed. A new paper, available in pre-print on arXiv from Dr. Turyshev, stresses an often overlooked feature of the SGL - how useful it can be at imaging things other than far away exoplanets.



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