It's not just a picture of any random bit of space. At its centre, you can see the hint of a spherical-like object traced out by curved and distorted galaxies.
This is a gravitational lens, a natural, if mind-boggling, feature of the universe predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity.
A huge cluster of galaxies in the centre of the image is so massive that is distorting space, bending the light that travels through it and magnifying the objects behind it.Watch timelapse of telescope build Hiding in this image, brought into crude focus by this gravitational lens, are quite probably the oldest galaxies we've ever seen.
Their light, when analysed carefully by other instruments on JWST, will give new insights into the earliest time in the universe just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang. It's an image that's a window into a new way of understanding how the universe we live in came to be.Related Topics
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