"Unraveling the Dark Matter Mystery: James Webb Telescope's Einstein Ring Discovery"

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"Unraveling the Dark Matter Mystery: James Webb Telescope's Einstein Ring Discovery"
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Researchers have discovered a dense galaxy surrounded by an "Einstein ring" using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), and have proposed that the galaxy's unusual density is due to a massive halo of dark matter compressing regular matter into it. This explanation could account for the galaxy's high mass, even after considering dark matter. The discovery, named JWST-ER1, is the most distant gravitationally lensed object ever found, and researchers hope to find more such objects to further test their theory.

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