The James Webb Space Telescope has captured the fabric of space-time being warped, showing a galaxy cluster 6.3 billion light-years away and the distant Cosmic Seahorse galaxy.
In an image captured by the observatory's NIRCam instrument, distant galaxies are magnified and warped due to an effect called gravitational lensing.
The lensing galaxy cluster, known as SDSS J1226+2149, lies at a distance of around 6.3 billion light-years from Earth in the constellation Coma Berenices. Many small galaxies are scattered on a black background: mainly, white, oval-shaped and red, spiral galaxies. To the lower right is a galaxy cluster, with a very large and bright elliptical galaxy at its center. Thin, reddish, stretched-out arcs surround it. One arc is thick and much brighter.
In this April 13, 2017, photo provided by NASA, technicians lift the mirror of the James Webb Space Telescope using a crane at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.This effect here has let scientists study star formation in the Cosmic Seahorse. This observation from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope features the massive galaxy cluster RX J2129.
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