Gravitational Lenses
A gravitational lens is produced by the enormous gravitational field of a massive object which bends light to magnify, brighten and distort the image of a more distant object. Depending on the alignment between the objects and the mass distribution of the foreground lens, the more distant object can be smeared into arcs or split into pairs, triples, or even quadruple images.
Credit:Kavan Ratnatunga (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD)
About the Image
About the Object
| Name: | Medium Deep Survey |
| Type: | Early Universe : Galaxy : Type : Gravitationally Lensed |
| Category: | Cosmology |
Colours & filters
| Band | Wavelength | Telescope |
|---|---|---|
| Optical V | 606 nm |
Hubble Space Telescope
WFPC2 |
| Infrared I | 814 nm |
Hubble Space Telescope
WFPC2 |