Credit: ESA Hiding amongst all those millions of galaxies are rare phenomena called gravitational lenses or “Einstein ... Einstein’s prediction that gravity warps spacetime, causing light ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has named this lens the Einstein ring. It is quite a rare phenomenon when there is another ... Such distortions, which create the Einstein ring effect, become possible ...

In this new effort, the research team has found, for the first time, two galaxies that align in a way that allows their ...

With the amazing power of modern telescopes, our "best of" astronomy websites have abundant evidence of gravity bending light, acting like a lens. If the alignment of a background object with a ...