The world's most powerful telescope is going to get built in Chile. The UA New Service announced today that the Giant Magellan Telescope ... tiny distortions that black holes cause in the light ...

2,550m, the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) will have an 80ft./24.5m diameter mirror (actually seven giant mirrors) that will help astronomers to investigate black holes, dark matter and dark energy.

Instead, the Giant Magellan Telescope uses just seven mirrors ... photometry is a little bit like the difference between a black-and-white TV and a color TV: they can both show you a picture ...

The Giant Magellan Telescope mirror ... dark matter and dark energy and study the physics of black holes, among other things, telescope officials said. The GMT is one of several huge telescope ...

A gigantic telescope designed to help astronomers solve some of the universe's deepest mysteries will soon start taking shape atop an arid mountain in the Chilean Andes. The Giant Magellan ...

From its high perch in the Atacama Desert in Chile, the Giant Magellan Telescope will peer into the jets of material ejected from supermassive black holes, take crisp images of distant planets ...

The Giant Magellan Telescope itself will focus on finding Earth-like planets around other stars. It will also look for light bending around a black hole and hunt for the first light in the ...

and black holes. It will possess 50 million times the light-gathering power of the human eye and will be up to 200 times more powerful than today's leading telescopes. Giant Magellan's advanced ...

Construction began Wednesday, Nov. 11 on what could become the world's largest optical telescope. The 22-story Giant Magellan Telescope ... and stars, study black holes up close, and hopefully ...

So far, only one of an eventual seven massive mirrors has been completely cast and polished for the Giant Magellan Telescope ... when did black holes arrive?" Assuming things go as planned ...