# Einstein ring

> an image of a distant light source (such as a galaxy or star) which has been distorted into a ring through gravitational lensing caused by an object with an extremely large mass (such as another galaxy or a black hole)

**Wikidata**: [Q912471](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q912471)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_ring)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/einstein-ring


## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
2. [OpenAlex](https://docs.openalex.org/download-snapshot/snapshot-data-format)