The 'Question Mark Pair' of galaxies, revealed through gravitational lensing by MACS-J0417.5, embodies the unique optical phenomena captured by the James Webb Space Telescope.
Gravitational lensing acts like a magnifying glass for the universe, demonstrating Einstein’s general relativity where spacetime curves around massive structures such as galaxy clusters.
The new image showcases a pair of distant galaxies interacting, located 7 billion light-years away, thus providing rare insights into cosmic structures and their behaviors.
The event is called a 'hyperbolic umbilic' lensing, a rare occurrence that illustrates the accuracy of Einstein's 1915 theory about the fabric of the universe.
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