Insane.
A new cosmic photo taken by the James Webb Space Telescope showed an instance of our space being warped and bent. The image features a cluster of galaxies looking like something heavy almost made them move closer together. In the huge photo, we can compare it to one section of the bed changing to accommodate a weight of a heavier object resting on that area.
Well, our comparison seems to match the reasoning as to why these galaxies, which are around 6.3 billion light-years away, look distorted and magnified. This was due to gravitational lensing, a phenomenon described by the European Space Agency as something that happens “when a massive celestial object such as a galaxy cluster causes a sufficient curvature of spacetime for light to be visibly bent around it, as if by a gargantuan lens.”
Read more about this cluster of galaxies here.
Image credit: ESA / Web // NASA / CSA / J. Rigby