"This discovery was partly serendipity! But, we believe there are many more such opportunities hidden in Hubble data." ...

Einstein rings happen when a lensed object lines up with its magnifying object. Depending on how precisely they align, an Einstein ring can either look like a full or partial circle around the ...

The red arc at the center of this Hubble Space Telescope image is a distant galaxy, called HerS 020941.1+001557. It appears to be partially circling another galaxy, SDSS J020941.27+001558.4, and ...

Astronomers spotted the ultramassive black hole inside the Cosmic Horseshoe, an equally gargantuan galaxy so powerful that it ...

Because light from this distant source takes time to reach Hubble, astronomers are seeing HerS 020941.1+001557 as it was about 11 billion years ago, long before the universe gave birth to the sun ...

As predicted by Einstein, the first complete Einstein ring was found in 1998 by the Hubble Space Telescope. Wishing you clear skies and wide eyes.

Astronomers have uncovered what may be the most massive black hole ever found, 36 billion times the mass of our Sun, hidden ...