Document Detail  Gravitational lensing: a unique probe of dark
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PMID:  20123743     Owner:  NLM     Status:  PubMed-not-MEDLINE
 I review the development of gravitational lensing as a powerful
tool of the observational cosmologist. After the historic
eclipse expedition organized by Arthur Eddington and Frank
Dyson, the subject lay observationally dormant for 60 years.
However, subsequent progress has been astonishingly rapid,
especially in the past decade, so that gravitational lensing now
holds the key to unravelling the two most profound mysteries of
our Universe-the nature and distribution of dark matter, and the
origin of the puzzling cosmic acceleration first identified in
the late 1990s. In this non-specialist review, I focus on the
unusual history and achievements of gravitational lensing and
its future observational prospects. Richard S Ellis Related
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