Astronomers Zoom in on a Galaxy 9 Billion Light-years Away Thanks to Gravitational Lensing

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By Erika K. Carlson
Oct 14, 2019 5:00 PMNov 18, 2019 11:48 PM
(Credit: MIT/Image courtesy of the researchers)
(Credit: MIT/Image courtesy of the researchers)

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When even the most powerful telescopes can’t capture the views you want, it helps to have natural magnifying glasses to rely on. In a paper published Monday in Nature Astronomy, researchers describe how they zoomed in to capture a young, star-forming galaxy roughly 9 billion light-years away in X-ray light.

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