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Copyright: Kavan Ratnatunga (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD)

These two objects represent a new distant class of quadruple, or cross-shaped, gravitational lenses which might eventually provide astronomers with a powerful new "magnifying glass" for probing a variety of characteristics of the universe.
Last Update: 1 September 2019
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