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Einstein ring explained (IMAGE)
The foreground galaxy acts like a magnifying lens, bending the travelling light rays due to its gravity ... the image appears as a ring – called an Einstein ring. Einstein rings were first ...
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Space telescope spots rare ‘Einstein ring’ of light around galaxy in our cosmic neighborhood
The faraway galaxy creating the ring is more than 4 billion light-years away. Gravity distorted the light from this more distant galaxy, thus the name honoring Albert Einstein. The process is ...
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Einstein ring spotted around galaxy a ‘mere’ 500 million light years away
Scientists have found a rare Einstein ring ... and Gravitation, said such rings can help scientists test Albert Einstein’s ...
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'Cosmic Horseshoe' may contain black hole the size of 36 billion suns — one of the largest ever detected
The "Cosmic Horseshoe" is an Einstein ring, a system made up of a foreground galaxy whose mass is so great, it warps the light from a galaxy behind it. Now, astronomers know where it gets this mass ...
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Scientists spot giant ‘Einstein ring’ nearby in space – by accident
Scientists have found a rare “Einstein ring ... and Gravitation, said such rings can help scientists test Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity. He said: “This lens is particularly ...
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Space telescope spots rare ‘Einstein ring’ of light around galaxy in our cosmic neighborhood
An Einstein ring ... Gravity distorted the light from this more distant galaxy, thus the name honoring Albert Einstein. The process is known as gravitational lensing. “All strong lenses are ...