It's two galaxies, many billions of light-years apart, combined into one by a rare cosmic phenomenon called an Einstein ring ... quirks of nature — a gravitational lens. It's when the ...

But perhaps the most beautiful effect of gravitational lensing is what's known as an Einstein Ring. This is where the distant galaxy is so perfectly centered behind the closer galaxy that its ...

creating a ring-like shape. This effect, called gravitational lensing, is a direct consequence of Einstein’s theory of general relativity, which describes how massive objects can warp the fabric ...

“An Einstein ring is an example of strong gravitational lensing,” says lead author Conor O’Riordan of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics. “All strong lenses are special, because ...

The school-bus-sized observatory launched on April 24, 1990 and overcame early setbacks to become one of the most ...

One such revelation arrived in the form of an astonishing discovery around the elliptical galaxy NGC 6505 – a complete Einstein ring ... of a strong gravitational lens around NGC 6505 was ...

The sun as a gravitational lens is the most powerful accessible telescope in history. We use Einstein's relativity to calculate what the magnifying power of the solar gravitational lens could be.

Einstein rings created by gravitational lensing are not just cosmic eye candy. This ring was captured during ... two-and-a-half times larger than the Hubble Space Telescope's mirror, meaning ...

Now for those who don't know what Einstein ring is, it is a bizarre optical phenomenon created by gravitational lensing. The European Space Agency (ESA) and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA ...