{"id":168528,"date":"2023-07-28T20:26:33","date_gmt":"2023-07-29T01:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/spectacular-new-einstein-cross-discovered-warping-space-time"},"modified":"2023-07-28T20:26:33","modified_gmt":"2023-07-29T01:26:33","slug":"spectacular-new-einstein-cross-discovered-warping-space-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/spectacular-new-einstein-cross-discovered-warping-space-time","title":{"rendered":"Spectacular New Einstein Cross Discovered Warping Space-Time"},"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\/MTY1Kje0yLg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A massive galaxy has created a rare distortion in the path of light that has traveled billions of years to reach us from a more distant galaxy.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s called <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/einstein-cross-gravitational-lens\">an Einstein cross<\/a> \u2013 when the curvature of space-time around a massive foreground object splits the light behind it into four, like the points of a cross. Its confirmation and analysis adds to a slowly growing catalog of these rare alignments, which can help us better understand the more distant reaches of the Universe.<\/p>\n<p>A paper detailing the system has been accepted by <em>The Astrophysical Journal Letters<\/em>, and is available on preprint resource <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2307.12470\">arXiv<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A massive galaxy has created a rare distortion in the path of light that has traveled billions of years to reach us from a more distant galaxy. It\u2019s called an Einstein cross \u2013 when the curvature of space-time around a massive foreground object splits the light behind it into four, like the points of a [\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-168528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168528","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=168528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}