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We May Have Just Found Evidence of a Cosmic String: a 'Crease' in The Universe (www.sciencealert.com)

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[–] Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

According to an analysis of the properties of the pair, the two galaxies may not be distinct objects, but a duplicate image caused by a trick of the light. And the reason the light is duplicated could be because of a scar in the space between us and the galaxy, creating a gravitational lens.

[–] MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

cosmic strings would create a unique kind of lensing with perfectly identical images on either side of a straight line, unlike regular gravitational lensing which tends to create distorted arcs and multiple images in different configurations.