February 10, 2025|
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|10 months agoSwiss-Led Space Research Team Discovers Rare Einstein Ring
The Euclid space telescope, with Swiss participation, has identified an extremely rare Einstein ring in galaxy NGC 6505, marking a significant astronomical discovery.
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- The Euclid space telescope identified a rare Einstein ring in galaxy NGC 6505.
- The discovery was made accidentally on a blurred test image not intended for science.
- Researchers from EPFL (Swiss Federal Technology Institute in Lausanne) were pivotal in analyzing the data.
- The Einstein ring phenomenon was predicted by Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity.
By The Numbers
590 million
light-years
4.42 billion
light-years
10 billion
light-years
6
years
They Said
"This galaxy has been known to astronomers for a very long time, yet this ring had never been observed before."