Jan 092015
An image from the Chandra X_Ray Observatory merged with a Hubble optical image equals artistic awesomeness. What’s shown here is a single galaxy in the foreground with a single quasar in the distant background. In a Newtonian universe, the quasar would be hidden by the foreground galaxy, but since this is an Einsteinian universe, gravitational lensing not only brings the quasar into view, it brings it into view as four separate images. The end result sure looks like a sci-fi wormhole, just the thing you’d expect to see the Jem Hadar or Great Old Ones come squeezing through. High-rez at the link.
RX J1131-1231: Chandra & XMM-Newton Provide Direct Measurement of Distant Black Hole’s Spin
