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According to Einstein’s theory of general ... the properties of a trapped region. Black hole mimickers generically have outer and inner light rings,” the study authors note.

A beautiful, "bejeweled" halo of warped light generated by a monster black hole takes center stage ... which is strikingly ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image offers us the chance to see a distant galaxy now some 19.5 billion light-years ...

In 1987, an enormous blue arc, thought to be hundreds of trillions of miles long, was first considered one of the largest ...

The black hole mimicker has a light ring, but does not have a horizon ... and planned (LISA, TianQin, Taiji, Einstein Telescope, Cosmic Explorer, Black Hole Explorer) observational instruments ...

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