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In this Hubble image the light from a distant galaxy, nearly 9.5 billion light-years away, has been warped into a giant arc of light in the galaxy cluster SDSS J1156+1911. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / Judy Schmidt, www.geckzilla.com.

Hubble Sees Giant Gravitational Arc

May 29, 2018 by News Staff

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have found a giant arc of light behind SDSS J1156+1911, a cluster of hundreds of galaxies located...