Near-Perfect Einstein Ring Discovered

Fraser Cain writes "Universe Today is reporting on the discovery of a nearly perfect Einstein Ring; a gravitational lens of a nearby galaxy working as a natural telescope to focus the light from a more distant galaxy. Gravitational lenses have been seen many times before, but never so complete, with a close lensing galaxy and a distant magnified galaxy."

It can't be long now that we discovered the Vorgon

[expro]

It can't be long now that we noticed the lens of the Vorgon sighting device. Are you sure those are galaxies on the other side, and not the twinkling of a charging energy device of a demolition crew?

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IF we can see them better...The Honey Moon-ers.

[Anonymous Coward]

"If we can see that universe better, the opposite is true, they can see us better."

Well humans being the rascals they are, will simply moon them.

Re:It can't be long now that we discovered the Vor

[Myrmi]

What's a Vorgon

When you have five apple and you eat all but one, you have Vorgon.

Re:Hmmm.....

[Gentlewhisper]

See, now they have a really good reason to get up there and maintain Hubble. I mean seriously, what better reason than to focus hubble on that Einstein ring and get a very upclose view of a distant galaxy

What if we see people dressed in white and dancing amongst the clouds?

*imagines*

OMG! The righties will eat us alive! I'd say we blow up Hubble right now!

Einstein's ring

[Anonymous Coward]

Today in science, experts focus on Einstein's gigantic ring to see what they can find.

Scientists report their need to explore the depth of the dark matter in Einstein's ring sometimes called Einstein's black hole.

"In the interests of space science, we need to plunge into the ring and extract the hidden dark matter" said one scientist from NASA's space laboratory.

"Soon we anticipate manned explorations inside the ring that will explain the enormous amounts of strange gas and dark matter inside. We are very excited about this" concluded NASA officials.

Re:Bright boy

[nandu_prahlad]

You mean like his womanizing [duke.edu]? ;-)

Blackhole sucking in Slashdot comments

[Anonymous Coward]

Recently a tiny blackhole was discovered near ./ server room. It causes most of astronomically related comments to vanish into another dimention.

As a proof, I show you 34 comments in about 90 minutes. There's simply no other reasonable explanation for this phenomenon, but I'm currently using a galaxy telescope to conduct further investigation.

Re:Bright boy

[dabigpaybackski]

Hey, I think being the father of Quantum Mechanics entitles one to a little booty every now and again.

Re:Einstein's genius

[Shard013]

They had computers in the early 1900's?

let the war of the worlds begin

[icepick72]

with a close lensing galaxy and a distant magnified galaxy.

It's like having our own super-weapon -- we can shine our sun through it and fry their planets.

Re:A fitting discovery for Einstein's year

[dawnread]

He's been dead 50 years and they only just found his ring?

7 days?

[dioscaido]

Crap, now I have to show the picture on the site to someone else, otherwise I'll be visited by Einstein's ghost.

Re:Hmmm.....

[Anonymous Coward]

So they can buy more bombs.

Please. Liberation devices.

Re:A fitting discovery for Einstein's year

[stevey]

Well just look at other famous figures who've lost their rings for precedent.

Sauron lost his ring for a whole age, so in comparison this was quite a quick job!

Re:before inflationary epoch

[Anonymous Coward]

Inflation occured in the 1970's and 80's as a result of rising gas prices - the light from the source galaxy emanated during the expansionary - not the inflationary phase of the Universe 11 billion (and 4 billion years) before "inflation".

We may now be experiencing a new inflationary era as a result of expansionary economic policies - or am I crossing up my disciplines here???

Re:A fitting discovery for Einstein's year

[LPetrazickis]

I was going to say 'Ah, this is obviously some strange use of the word "historical" that I wasn't previously aware of.' but then realized that you did actually use the word "historical" to describe Sauron. Ooops.:P