News

This Hubble Space Telescope image features a remote galaxy, which appears as a red arc that partially encircles a foreground ...
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image offers us the chance to see a distant galaxy now some 19.5 billion light-years ...
This newly discovered Einstein ring was formed when light from a distant galaxy, located 4.42 billion light-years away, was bent and magnified by the gravity of the foreground galaxy, NGC 6505 ...
We have now found dozens of Einstein rings, and one of the more beautiful examples was recently found by JWST, as seen in the image above. The close galaxy in the foreground is an elliptical ...
C. Cuillandre, G. Anselmi, T. Li via ESA Standard Licence “An Einstein ring is an example of strong gravitational lensing,” lead author Conor O’Riordan, an astrophysicist at the Max Planck ...
Astronomers using the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to survey distant galaxies spotted an unusual, chance phenomenon called an "Einstein ring." It's not an actual object, but a warped ...
It's two galaxies, many billions of light-years apart, combined into one by a rare cosmic phenomenon called an Einstein ring. It's an optical illusion. Published recently as the James Webb Space ...