When we visited Yerkes Observatory in 2021, it was closed and faced a daunting road back, yet its director had big plans. It ...

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The Einstein ring, formed as light from a distant galaxy bends to glow around another object in the foreground, could help ...

Albert Einstein himself thought that the eponymous Einstein ring would be impossible to observe, but the Euclid telescope has ...

Einstein rings of light are produced when two galaxies are almost perfectly aligned, with one behind the other from a fixed perspective. They are one of the best examples we have of gravitational ...

Having an Einstein ring so close to Earth will let us test relativity in ways we can’t with other faraway lenses, says Collett, because they can measure the galaxy’s mass in two ways ...

A rare ring of light surrounding a galaxy nearly 590 million light-years away from Earth has been discovered by a space ...

Einstein rings occur when light from a distant galaxy bends to form a glowing ring around another object in the foreground as that object is being observed. The rarely observed rings are named for ...