"They're so rare, and they're incredibly useful scientifically," said Conor O'Riordan of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics.

An Einstein Ring, named as a nod to Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, is light from a galaxy that bends in a way to encircle a closer object, NASA explained. The first known Einstein Ring ...

Accordingly, scientists decided to name the discoveries of complete or near-complete circles of light produced by lensing an Einstein ring, NASA's Hubblesite explains. "The simplest type of ...

The "Cosmic Horseshoe" is an Einstein ring, a system made up of a foreground galaxy whose mass is so great, it warps the ...

Participants in the March 10 SXSW panel include Firefly CEO Jason Kim and Regina Blue, the deputy programmatic manager for ...

The Euclid space mission of the European Space Agency has spotted an Einstein ring in the galaxy NGC 6505, just 590 million lightyears from the earth.

An Einstein ring is light from a much more distant galaxy ... Euclid rocketed from Florida in 2023. NASA is taking part in its mission to detect dark energy and dark matter in the universe.

A close up of the center of galaxy NGC 6505 with the Einstein Ring around it. (ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre, G. Anselmi, T. Li | European Space Agency ...