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The Discovery of a Gravitational Lens

A recently discovered pair of quasars turns out to be not a pair at all but two images of a single quasar formed by a gravitational lens: an elliptical galaxy halfway between the quasar and our own galaxy

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 243 Issue 5This article was originally published with the title “The Discovery of a Gravitational Lens” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 243 No. 5 (), p. 70
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1180-70