{"id":136852,"date":"2022-03-14T12:04:28","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T19:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/hubble-catches-a-cosmic-illusion-predicted-by-einstein-86-years-ago"},"modified":"2022-03-14T12:04:28","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T19:04:28","slug":"hubble-catches-a-cosmic-illusion-predicted-by-einstein-86-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/hubble-catches-a-cosmic-illusion-predicted-by-einstein-86-years-ago","title":{"rendered":"Hubble catches a cosmic illusion predicted by Einstein 86 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hubble-catches-a-cosmic-illusion-predicted-by-einstein-86-years-ago2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Little did he know that we would one day have telescopes powerful enough to image distant galaxies.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\" data-md-text-align=\"center\"><p>\u201c[Einstein] had a sense of the natural sublime.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/astronomers-revisit-first-einstein-ring-in-archival-data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">first known image<\/a> of an Einstein ring was captured in 1987 at the Very Large Array radio observatory in New Mexico. A little over a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.merlin.ac.uk\/press\/PR9801\/press.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">decade<\/a> later, Hubble found the first complete one. Since then astronomers have found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/11116\/more-einstein-rings-discovered\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">many more<\/a> of Einstein Rings including this one, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.astro.ucla.edu\/~tt\/Welcome.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Tommaso Treu<\/a>\u2019s group in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Californa, Los Angeles, produced with the Hubble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Little did he know that we would one day have telescopes powerful enough to image distant galaxies. \u201c[Einstein] had a sense of the natural sublime.\u201d The first known image of an Einstein ring was captured in 1987 at the Very Large Array radio observatory in New Mexico. A little over a decade later, Hubble found [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136852","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}