Extremely rare perfect Einstein ring is captured around a galaxy 500million light years away by stunned scientists A POWERFUL telescope floating in space has discovered an extremely rare Einstein ring of light around a nearby galaxy.
The Euclid telescope, from the European Space Agency, captured images of the light halo surrounding galaxy NGC 6505 roughly 500 million light-years away.
The ring of light is coming from another, faraway galaxy 4.42 billion light-years away, that is positioned nearly perfectly behind NGC 6505.
Scientists estimate that the galaxy closest to Earth, NGC 6505, is made up of around 11 per cent dark matter.
Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity predicted that light will bend around massive objects in space, meaning galaxies can act as giant lenses.
