CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Europe’s Euclid space telescope has detected a rare halo of bright light around a nearby galaxy, astronomers reported Monday. The halo, known as an Einstein ring, encircles ...

It is not every day that a nearby, cataloged galaxy reveals a secret hiding in plain sight. A new study reports a complete Einstein ring, a near perfect loop of light made when a more distant galaxy’s ...

The Cosmic Horseshoe gravitational lens: The newly discovered ultramassive blackhole lies at the centre of the orange galaxy. Far behind it is a blue galaxy that is being warped into the horseshoe ...

What just happened? Astronomers have identified what may be the largest black hole ever discovered – one with a mass 36 billion times that of our Sun. Located at the center of the Cosmic Horseshoe ...

Astronomers first discovered the Cosmic Horseshoe in 2007 using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. In this Hubble visible and infrared image, the blue horseshoe is a distant galaxy magnified and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. An Einstein ring! What at first appears to be a single, ...

(NewsNation) — A new photo taken by the James Webb Space Telescope shows a rare cosmic phenomenon called an “Einstein ring.” Einstein rings happen due to a process called “gravitational lensing,” ...

The latest image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, pictured above, also happens to be a stunning illustration of Einstein's theory of general relativity. So much so that the cosmic phenomenon is ...

March 19 (UPI) --The European Space Agency's spacecraft Euclid on Wednesday released a treasure trove of new data in its quest to map and unlock mysteries of what scientists call the "dark universe." ...

The mission’s first large set of survey data is a treasure trove for clues about the history of the universe. Reading time 2 minutes The Euclid space telescope is on a mission to map more than one ...

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