Einstein Cross.

By Alex in Everything Else on Mar 12, 2007 at 11:43 pm

That’s not a galactic four-leaf clover – instead it’s an example of how gravitational lensing split the light from a distant quasar into four distinct images.

This specific case is known as the Einstein cross: Link


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