{"id":3926702,"date":"2026-06-28T16:00:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T21:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/the-solar-gravitational-lens-could-map-white-dwarfs-and-black-holes\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T16:00:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T21:00:24","slug":"the-solar-gravitational-lens-could-map-white-dwarfs-and-black-holes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/the-solar-gravitational-lens-could-map-white-dwarfs-and-black-holes\/","title":{"rendered":"The solar gravitational lens could map white dwarfs and black holes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>It feels like every few months we get to report on another academic paper singing the praises of the Solar Gravitational Lens (SGL). Partly, this is due to Dr. Slava Turyshev&#8217;s astounding productivity in pumping out academic articles, but partly because such a groundbreaking mission has lots of positive aspects\u2014as well as challenges that need to be addressed. A new paper, posted to the arXiv preprint server from Dr. Turyshev, stresses an often overlooked feature of the SGL: how useful it can be for imaging things other than faraway exoplanets.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-06-solar-gravitational-lens-white-dwarfs.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It feels like every few months we get to report on another academic paper singing the praises of the Solar Gravitational Lens (SGL). Partly, this is due to Dr. Slava Turyshev&#8217;s astounding productivity in pumping out academic articles, but partly because such a groundbreaking mission has lots of positive aspects\u2014as well as challenges that need [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3926702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3926702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3926702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3926702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3926702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}