Professor Thomas Collett, from the University of Portsmouth’s Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, said such rings can help scientists test Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity.

The first Einstein ring was discovered in 1987, and since then, several more have been discovered. However, it remains ...

Albert Einstein was leaving his birthday party at the Princeton Club when United Press International photographer Arthur ...

A rare ring of light surrounding a galaxy nearly 590 million light-years away from Earth has been discovered by a space ...

"They're so rare, and they're incredibly useful scientifically," said Conor O'Riordan of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics.

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Professor Thomas Collett, from the University of Portsmouth’s Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, said such rings can help scientists test Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity.

Professor Thomas Collett, from the University of Portsmouth's Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, said such rings can help scientists test Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity.

A Euclid space telescope has spotted a rare halo of bright light known as an "Einstein Ring" in a galaxy not so far, far away.

The discovery can help scientists test Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity. The circle of light is created by gravitational lensing around a galaxy 500 million light years away called ...