Dark matter breakthrough: Scientist’s ‘very strange’ Albert Einstein discovery revealed
The narrator of the series went on to explain why Dr Mellier started investigating this theory further.
He said: “Einstein called this effect gravitational lensing.
“The object constituting the lens being sufficiently dense and massive to bend rays of light.
“But this phenomenon remained a theory and was yet to be observed until Yannick and his colleagues happened to spot something strange in the sky in Hawaii.
“In 1985, Yannick, then a young researcher, arrived at one of the best telescopes in the world, 4,200 metres above sea level on the summit of the volcano Mauna Kea.”
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