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Corey S Powell

Astronomers have just discovered the first known "Einstein zigzag."

Due to a rare, lucky cosmic alignment, the combined gravity of two galaxies bent light like spaghetti & split a distant quasar into six different images.

This six-part image could allow a very accurate measure of the expansion of the universe.

science.org/content/article/fi

The full paper on "The first Einstein zig-zag lens" is freely available here:

arxiv.org/abs/2411.04177

@coreyspowell

For some reason I doubt Einstein had this alignment on his Gravitational Lensing bingo card.