Extremely distant galaxies are usually too faint to be seen, even by the largest telescopes. But nature has a solution--gravitational lensing, predicted by Albert Einstein and observed many times by astronomers. Now, an international team of astronomers led by Harald Ebeling from the University of Hawai i has discovered one of the most extreme instances of magnification by gravitational lensing.
Extremely distant galaxies are usually too faint to be seen, even by the largest telescopes. But nature has a solution--gravitational lensing, predicted by Albert Einstein and observed many times by astronomers. Now, an international team of astronomers led by Harald Ebeling from the University of Hawai i has discovered one of the most extreme instances of magnification by gravitational lensing.
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