{"id":187363,"date":"2024-04-14T10:42:45","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T15:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/physicists-solve-puzzle-about-ancient-galaxy-found-by-webb-telescope"},"modified":"2024-04-14T10:42:45","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T15:42:45","slug":"physicists-solve-puzzle-about-ancient-galaxy-found-by-webb-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/physicists-solve-puzzle-about-ancient-galaxy-found-by-webb-telescope","title":{"rendered":"Physicists solve puzzle about ancient galaxy found by Webb telescope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-solve-puzzle-about-ancient-galaxy-found-by-webb-telescope.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last September, the James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, discovered JWST-ER1g, a massive ancient galaxy that formed when the universe was just a quarter of its current age. Surprisingly, an Einstein ring is associated with this galaxy. That\u2019s because JWST-ER1g acts as a lens and bends light from a distant source, which then appears as a ring\u2014a phenomenon called strong gravitational lensing, predicted in Einstein\u2019s theory of general relativity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last September, the James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, discovered JWST-ER1g, a massive ancient galaxy that formed when the universe was just a quarter of its current age. Surprisingly, an Einstein ring is associated with this galaxy. That\u2019s because JWST-ER1g acts as a lens and bends light from a distant source, which then appears as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187363","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}