{"id":126561,"date":"2021-08-20T22:24:43","date_gmt":"2021-08-21T05:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/hubble-captures-a-stunning-einstein-ring-magnifying-the-depths-of-the-universe"},"modified":"2021-08-20T22:24:43","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T05:24:43","slug":"hubble-captures-a-stunning-einstein-ring-magnifying-the-depths-of-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/hubble-captures-a-stunning-einstein-ring-magnifying-the-depths-of-the-universe","title":{"rendered":"Hubble Captures a Stunning \u2018Einstein Ring\u2019 Magnifying The Depths of The Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PzSYbAKQheE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Gravity is the weird, mysterious glue that binds the Universe together, but that\u2019s not the limit of its charms. We can also leverage the way it warps space-time to see distant objects that would be otherwise much more difficult to make out.<\/p>\n<p>This is called gravitational lensing, an effect predicted by Einstein, and it\u2019s beautifully illustrated in a new release from the Hubble Space Telescope.<\/p>\n<p>In the center in the image (below) is a shiny, near-perfect ring with what appear to be four bright spots threaded along it, looping around two more points with a golden glow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gravity is the weird, mysterious glue that binds the Universe together, but that\u2019s not the limit of its charms. We can also leverage the way it warps space-time to see distant objects that would be otherwise much more difficult to make out. This is called gravitational lensing, an effect predicted by Einstein, and it\u2019s beautifully [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}