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When distant starlight bends around the gravity of a closer foreground object, it may make an ‘Einstein ring’ like this. The name is an homage to predictions about space-time made in Einstein’s theory of relativity. (Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA/S. Jha/Acknowledgement: L. Shatz)