ALMA telescope (Photo : Reuters)
Astronomers spotted "Einstein ring" in the deep space that is believed to have sparked from a galaxy that is 12 billion years far. The brilliant, near-perfect image was captured with the use of ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) 23 milliseconds, super-high resolution ground telescope positioned in the Northern Chile's Atacama Desert, the Discovery News showed.
Catherine Vlahakis, the deputy scientist of the program at ALMA said in a press conference, "With the astounding level of detail in these new ALMA images, astronomers will now be able to reassemble the information contained in the distorted image we see as a ring and produce a reconstruction of the true image of the distant galaxy," the ALMA Observatory published.
The captured images featured the star-forming, active SDP.81 galaxy that has appeared ring-like and magnified because of the strange "Gravitational Lensing" phenomenon.
"Gravitational Lensing" has been included in the "Theory of General Relativity" by Albert Einstein which stated that gravity affects the bending of the light's path. When two objects line up in a straight path, the earth's gravitational pull from one object could actually bend the light that is originating from the opposite in line, just like what happens in a lens. This could, even, shape the light and show-off as a perfect light from the Earth.
ALMA that is present in Chile's Atacama Desert is perceived as the Earth's most powerful observatory. Not long ago since it first started its mission, ALMA's "Einstein ring" capture has proven that this facility has a big potential for showing objects in space in great precision.
