The refraction of a supernova explosion confirms a prediction made by Einstein from more than 100 years ago (Photo: courtesy Nature).
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The supernova explosion reflected like a mirror in the cosmos. This repetition of the light that produced the star burst is due to the fact that the light is bent and deformed in space, which caused that effect of “several copies” of the same image.
“Light is a wave and a particle at the same time, which is bent in space by the forces of gravity of planets and stars,” he said. Albert Einstein while developing his theory of relativity. It took more than 100 years for science to verify his theories. The Webb Space Telescope made that sensational find.
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The bending of light, predicted by Einstein, causes the explosion to repeat itself as reflections across the cosmos (Photo: courtesy BI News).
The supernova, named by scientists S.N. Zwicky, it exploded and its enormous light spread like mirrors throughout the universe. This phenomenon captured by the space telescope can help to understand how the nuclei of galaxies are formed, such as the Milky Way, in which our planet Earth is located.
Einstein: light in space bends
It is one of the conclusions reached by Albert Einstein while giving birth to the theory of relativity. It is a complex concept to understand, but if it is summarized, the approach is as follows.
Light is a wave that travels through the entire universe at a speed of 300,000 km/second. Nothing can travel at a higher speed. Light travels in a straight line through space, but when it passes near stars or planets, the force of gravity causes it to “bend” to find the shortest path.
This statement of einstein it could be verified in a single effect, more than 100 years later. Scientists published in the journal Nature that by documenting the explosion of a supernova, they managed to capture an impressive phenomenon.
The light that comes from supernova is distorted by the gravity of dense celestial bodies, They act like a lens to bend and focus light. This allows the light from the burst to be seen replicated as if they were mirrors that reflect the original phenomenon.
Scientists in the journal Nature claim that they were able to verify the curvature of light that Einstein spoke of more than a century ago (Photo: Nature magazine).
The evidence revealed by scientists about light and Einstein
The work presented in the last publication says that the greater the gravitational force, the more the light “bends”. This causes it to form as a kind of refractory mirrors of the same phenomenon. That is, the event of the supernova explosion originates different similar images that advance through the universe.
The light to bend is reflected in several similar images by the action of the fragments and elements in space and their forces of gravity (Photo: courtesy RT).
According to the scientists, by analyzing the trajectory followed by each of these reflexes, it is possible to predict how the “universe expansion”something in which the scientific community has agreed since its inception with the big Bang.