Photos snapped by the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed the farthest ever example of an Einstein ring. The recordbreaking halo of warped light, which is a whopping 21 billion light years away, is unusually perfect and surrounds a mysteriously dense galaxy. An Einstein ring is an extremely rare type of gravitationally lensed object that was first predicted
WEBB SNAPS THE MOST DISTANT GRAVITATIONALLY LENSED OBJECT EVER SEEN
Nov 02, 2023
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