{"id":192384,"date":"2024-07-05T18:24:35","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T23:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/webb-admires-bejeweled-ring-of-the-lensed-quasar-rx-j1131-1231"},"modified":"2024-07-05T18:24:35","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T23:24:35","slug":"webb-admires-bejeweled-ring-of-the-lensed-quasar-rx-j1131-1231","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/webb-admires-bejeweled-ring-of-the-lensed-quasar-rx-j1131-1231","title":{"rendered":"Webb admires bejeweled ring of the lensed quasar RX J1131-1231"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/webb-admires-bejeweled-ring-of-the-lensed-quasar-rx-j1131-12313.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This new picture of the month from the NASA\/ESA\/CSA James Webb Space Telescope features the gravitational lensing of the quasar known as RX J1131-1231, located roughly six billion light-years from Earth in the constellation Crater.<\/p>\n<p>It is considered one of the best lensed quasars discovered to date, as the foreground galaxy smears the image of the background quasar into a bright arc and creates four images of the object.<\/p>\n<p>Gravitational lensing, first predicted by Einstein, offers a rare opportunity to study regions close to the black hole in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/distant+quasars\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">distant quasars<\/a>, by acting as a natural telescope and magnifying the light from these sources. All matter in the universe warps the space around itself, with larger masses producing a stronger effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This new picture of the month from the NASA\/ESA\/CSA James Webb Space Telescope features the gravitational lensing of the quasar known as RX J1131-1231, located roughly six billion light-years from Earth in the constellation Crater. It is considered one of the best lensed quasars discovered to date, as the foreground galaxy smears the image of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192384","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}