A time when the universe was going through a 'baby boom.'
A donut-like ring of light, which looks as spooky as it is spectacular, has allowed scientists to observe what's going on in a galaxy near the beginning of time.after the brilliant physicist who predicted its existence back in 1915, is actually a light smear caused by a lensing effect that occurs when a foreground object with strong gravity magnifies the light of a more distant galaxy behind it., we are viewing the galaxy in the ring as it was around a whopping 9 billion years ago.
Afterward, researchers resurrected archival data collected by the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope to calculate the galaxy's distance at 9.4 billion light-years and were able to recreate the smears and duplications of the Molten Ring into the galaxy that formed it using Hubble's photos, which provided insights about its evolution.
"This was a time when the universe was going through a 'baby boom,' forming thousands of stars at a prolific rate. The magnified image of the galaxy gives astronomers a close-up glimpse into the distant past," the Hubble statement explained.According to Nikolaus Sulzenauer, a Ph.D.