The Cloverleaf is a 17th-magnitude quasar whose image has been reproduced four times through gravitational lensing — an occurrence caused by the powerful gravitational field of a massive, intervening galaxy, which has bent and magnified the light from this distant quasar to produce the multiple images we see. Equally fascinating is that in X-ray imagingContinue reading "The Cloverleaf"
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