Einstein predicted the existence of gravitationally-warped rings of light in 1915. Now, a new one has been discovered just a ...

Astronomers used an array of telescopes to find the most massive radio jet in the early universe. The celestial object is ...

Albert Einstein himself thought that the eponymous Einstein ring would be impossible to observe, but the Euclid telescope has ...

New data reveals a 3-million-light-year filament connecting two galaxies, each of which hosts a supermassive black hole.

Experts emphasize that the cosmic microwave background is shaped by everything it encounters on its journey, including ...

The Einstein ring, formed as light from a distant galaxy bends to glow around another object in the foreground, could help ...

The Milky Way itself contains about 100 billion stars, and that’s just one galaxy among billions scattered across the ...

Einstein rings help scientists study dark matter and cosmic expansion. Euclid will find thousands more lenses to map the ...

The cosmic superstructure Quipu is more than 13,000 times the length of the Milky Way, and its mass is 200 quadrillion times ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

According to astronomers, there are approximately 200 billion trillion stars in our observable universe — chances are, ...

The structure is nearly 600 million light-years from Earth and is an early display of the nascent dark matter telescope's ...