New James Webb telescope photo of a galaxy cluster 6 billion light years away shows a trippy phenomenon where gravity warps spacetime

Sun, 04/02/2023 - 00:38

Many small galaxies are scattered on a black background: mainly white, oval-shaped and red, spiral galaxies. To the lower right is a galaxy cluster, with a very large and bright elliptical galaxy at its center. Thin, reddish, stretched-out arcs surround it. One arc is thick and much brighter. Another red galaxy is large and warped, just next to the cluster core. — Cosmic seahorse
ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, J. Rigby

New cosmic photos of galactic "arcs and streaks" in space were released on Tuesday by NASA's James Webb Telescope.
The galaxies are bending space and time in a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing.
This effect helps magnify distant galaxies as well.

New photos of galactic "arcs and streaks" in space released by NASA's James Webb telescope show just how trippy a phenomenon called gravitational lensing can look.