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Ping!...................
It’s Sauron...
Looks like God’s initials to me.
That long ago it probably doesn’t exist anymore, at least not in that shape.
“It blinked into existence...” amazing the nonsense people will believe.
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Einstein ring
An Einstein ring, also known as an Einstein–Chwolson ring or Chwolson ring (named for Orest Khvolson), is created when light from a galaxy or star passes by a massive object en route to the Earth. Due to gravitational lensing, the light is diverted, making it seem to come from different places. If source, lens, and observer are all in perfect alignment, the light appears as a ring.
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The bending of light by a gravitational body was predicted by Albert Einstein in 1912, a few years before the publication of general relativity in 1916 (Renn et al. 1997). The ring effect was first mentioned in the academic literature by Orest Khvolson in a short article in 1924, in which he mentioned the “halo effect” of gravitation when the source, lens, and observer are in near-perfect alignment.[5] Einstein remarked upon this effect in 1936 in a paper prompted by a letter by a Czech engineer, R W Mandl [1], but stated
“Of course, there is no hope of observing this phenomenon directly. First, we shall scarcely ever approach closely enough to such a central line. Second, the angle β will defy the resolving power of our instruments.”
— Science vol 84 p 506 1936
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_ring
I’m glad that Michelle Starr explained that Einstein rings are named for Albert Einstein. Otherwise I would have thought they were named for the Einstein Brothers who started that coffee-and-bagels chain.
Metal poor stars. Don’t you need at least two super nova explosions to create what we have here?
‘Q’ may have been born then.
Before the big bang?
Awesome!
"Molten Ring" is a dumb name...
Many people, reading only the headline, will make the assumption that GAL-CLUS-022058s is either liquid or fiery...
Saurabh Jha should know better...
But I should bite my xenophobic tongue now...
However, I'd never bite my Xenaphobic tongue... That would be lawless of me...
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