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The smiley face illusion is caused by !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . The hugely massive galaxies making up the "eye's" are bending the light from galaxies behind distorting it into the smile and sides of the face.
Galaxy clusters are the most massive structures in the Universe and exert such a powerful gravitational pull that they warp the spacetime around them and act as cosmic lenses which can magnify, distort and bend the light behind them. This phenomenon, crucial to many of Hubble's discoveries, can be explained by Einstein's theory of general relativity.
In this special case of gravitational lensing, a ring — known as an Einstein Ring — is produced from this bending of light, a consequence of the exact and symmetrical alignment of the source, lens and observer and resulting in the ring-like structure we see here.
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What a complete bullshit explanation. We all know the truth, some of us are just denying it.
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Aliens with magnifying glasses. Big magnifying glasses.
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Good, let the hate flow through you
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