NASA and the ESA Hubble Space Telescope have once again managed to discover another wonder of the cosmic universe. This time, the space telescope managed to capture an extremely rare event that astronomers call the ‘Melting Ring’.
Ring melt (Einstein) (Image: NASA / Hubble)
The image, recently shared by NASA, depicts GAL-CLUS-022058s, Einstein’s rings in the Fornax (furnace) constellation in the southern hemisphere, about 60 million light years from Earth.. In a notice on the NASA website, ESA explains that GAL-CLUS-022058s “is the largest and one of the most complete Einstein rings ever found in our universe.”
Einstein’s first theoretical existence Einstein di sy general theory of relativity. It is formed by gravitational lensing, a process that causes distortion in light moving from a distance due to the gravitational effect of an object placed at the center of the light source and observer.
In this image of Einstein’s rings shared by NASA, galactic light can be distorted from the background due to gravitational lenses.. Notes from the ESA suggest that the effect in this is due to the severity of the galaxy cluster sitting in front of the background system..
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What’s more, the background system is almost exactly the same as the galactic center of the elliptical group seen in the center of this image. This causes the background system light to turn off and thus the image is enlarged into an almost perfect ring. Additional distortion caused by gravity from other galaxies in the group.
The resulting image looks like a “Melting Ring” and astronomers have named it. The ESA says the object is an “ideal laboratory” for studying galaxies too far from Earth. Because distance makes them appear dim, these galaxies are nearly impossible to see without a gravitational lens.
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