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Hubble’s Gravitational Lenses

Witness an Einstein-predicted phenomenon that magnifies light from far-distant galaxies through the gaze of the Hubble Space Telescope.

At first glance, it may seem as though this image was taken through a faulty lens, but the mind-bending distortions...
Black background dotted with galaxies. A reddish group of galaxies at image center with a brownish-red ring curving almost completely around it.
This image is packed full of galaxies! A keen eye can spot exquisite ellipticals and spectacular spirals, seen at various...
Black background dotted with galaxies. A reddish-orange pair of galaxies at image center with a pinkish-red ring curving almost completely around it.
This Hubble Space Telescope image shows galaxy cluster MACS J0416.1-2403, located roughly 4 billion light-years away and weighing as much...
A cluster of yellow galaxies with hundreds of background galaxies. The image include arcs that are distorted images of background galaxies.
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the galaxy cluster MACSJ0717.5+3745. This is one of six being studied...
Large sample galaxies of different sizes and shapes, experiencing a lens-like distortion.
This Hubble image shows several blue, loop-shaped objects that actually are multiple images of the same galaxy. The gravitational lens...
Several bright elliptical and spiral galaxies cluster near the image's center, while many others dot the field of view. Elongated, blue ellipses around the central cluster are a distant, gravitationally lensed galaxy.
This early Hubble Space Telescope image of gravitational lens G2237 + 0305 — sometimes referred to as an "Einstein Cross"...
Four bright-white circles, positioned in the shape of a cross around a fifth more muted white spot in the center.
In the center of this image, taken with the Hubble Space Telescope, are two faint galaxies that seem to be...
Two bright orange galaxies seem to form eyes, and streaks of curved, bent and magnified light form the circle of a face and a happy smile. A smaller bright galaxy serves as the nose in this smiley face. Other galaxies dot the picture.