Science Dec 4, 2014 6:41 PM EDT On a prehistoric white shell fossil from the island of Java, tiny zig-zag shaped scratches may etch out the beginning of art history, and rewrite our human history.

T he James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has achieved a groundbreaking discovery, revealing the first-ever instance of an “Einstein zig-zag“.This previously theoretical phenomenon involves light ...

In what is the first discovery of an Einstein zig-zag lens in the universe, a team of international astronomers have sighted two galaxies which are aligned in a way where their gravity acts as a ...

Furthermore, the team posits that light traveled through the lens in a zig-zag pattern. The team’s research is currently hosted on the preprint server arXiv, and it suggests that the rare ...

Thomas Collett, an astrophysicist at the University of Portsmouth in the U.K. who was not involved in the study, told Science magazine that studying the zig-zag will "shine a light on whether the ...

"This unique lensing configuration allows us to constrain both the Hubble constant and dark energy parameters simultaneously — something that is generally not possible." Using the James Webb ...