A newly released image from NASA Hubble telescope reveals that a huge cluster of galaxies called Abell 370, has an array of galaxies guarding it and is useful in studying far - flung
galaxies by its gravitational lensing property.
The research is described in the paper «Dusty starburst galaxies in the early Universe as
revealed by gravitational lensing», by J. Vieira et al., in the journal Nature.
And scientists studying other phenomena, such as optical illusions in space
caused by gravitational lensing — a gravity - induced effect that causes light from distant objects to bend and distort around closer objects — will also be useful in making more precise measurements.