New photos from the James Webb Space Telescope show off the bewitching beauty of the warped quasar RX J1131-1231, which is adorned with four bright spots birthed by mind-bending space-time trickery.
The Einstein ring results from a phenomenon called gravitational lensing (Image credit: NASA/ESA/CSA) The concept of gravitational lensing was first predicted by Albert Einstein in his theory of ...
A gravitationally lensed quasar looks just like a sparkling piece of jewelry. A sparkling jeweled ring, created through a cosmic phenomenon called gravitational lensing, has been imaged by the ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a breathtaking image of a distant quasar, a super bright object powered by a black hole. This image isn't your typical space picture though. A cosmic ...
From “Cosmic Cliffs,” to an awe-inspiring image of a cloud complex filled with gas and stars, Webb has captured the cosmos in ...
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, the world's biggest and most powerful space science telescope, captured an Einstein ring, which is located nearly 12 billion light-years away, is the result of ...
A beautiful, "bejeweled" halo of warped light generated by a monster black hole takes center stage in one of the latest James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) images. The luminous loop, which is ...
A beautiful, "bejeweled" halo of warped light generated by a monster black hole takes center stage in one of the latest James ...