Tag: Einstein Ring

How We Managed What Einstein Thought Was Impossible – And Used His Theory To Weigh A Star

MessageToEagle | June 7, 2017

MessageToEagle.com – If you are looking at a glass lens you will not see the lens itself, but rather notice objects behind it being displaced and distorted. Gravitation has

An image of the "Canarias Einstein ring". In the centre of the picture, we can see how the source galaxy (the greenish-blue circle), which is further away "surrounds" the lens galaxy (red dot) almost completely. This phenomenon is produced because the strong gravitational field of the lens galaxy distorts the space-time in its neighborhood, bending the paths of the light rays which come from the source galaxy. As they are almost perfectly aligned, the resulting image of the source galaxy is almost circular. Credit: Image made up from several images taken with the DECam camera on the Blanco 4m telescope at the Cerro Tololo Observatory in Chile

Astronomy

New ‘Einstein Ring’ – A Rare Image Of A Distant Galaxy – Discovered

MessageToEagle.com | June 6, 2016

MessageToEagle.com – An international team of astronomers from Spain, Italy and the USA have found a new Einstein Ring, a rare image of a distant galaxy lensed by