A galactic monster trapped by the Hubble Space Telescope

The Hubble Space Telescope, observing a galaxy cluster eight billion light-years from Earth in the constellation Hounds, caught a galactic monster in the process of forming.

According to Tekna technology and technology news service, the observed collection includes two galaxy clusters that have merged together to form a galactic monster. This cluster plays the role of a gravitational lens.

This lens is considered part of Einstein’s theory of general relativity. Galaxy clusters are massive enough to distort the space-time dimension. For this reason, the path of light around them is observed in a twisted way and it is observed like the performance of a wide lens.

Also, this lens will be able to magnify distant objects. In this way, astronomers can observe faint and unrecognizable distant objects with its help. By distorting the image of the background galaxies, this lens dims them and shows them in the form of streaks of light.

Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera made it possible to observe multiple wavelengths. Astronomers plan to continue their studies of gravitational lensing with advanced telescopes like the James Webb.