It’s so rare that less than 1% of galaxies have an Einstein ring, O’Riordan said. There are between 100 and 1,000 Einstein ring-like objects known, but only a few tens of them have been ...

This photo provided by the European Space Agency shows a close-up view of the center of the NGC 6505 galaxy, with the bright Einstein ring aligned with it, captured by European Space Agency’s Euclid ...

Europe’s Euclid space telescope has detected a rare halo of bright light around a nearby galaxy, astronomers reported Monday. The halo, known as an Einstein ring, encircles a galaxy 590 million ...

"An Einstein ring is an example of strong gravitational lensing. "All strong lenses are special, because they're so rare, and they're incredibly useful scientifically. "This one is particularly ...

A close-up view of the ring of light surrounding the NGC 6505 galaxy - ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre, T. Li/PA Scientists have found a rare Einstein ring ...

While reviewing the pictures, astronomer and Euclid archive scientist Bruno Altieri found something incredibly rare: an Einstein ring circling a galaxy. The discovery was announced in a study ...

Nasa's Hubble Space Telescope has captured LEDA 1313424, a galaxy with nine star-filled rings, the most ever detected, resulting from an impact with a smaller blue dwarf galaxy. This unique ...

A rare ring of light surrounding a galaxy nearly 590 million light-years away from Earth has been discovered by a space telescope that scientists hope will uncover more cosmic phenomena throughout ...