The stars (or rather galaxies) of the show (IMAGE)

University of Tokyo

The stars (or rather galaxies) of the show

Caption

A montage of eight time-delay gravitational lens systems. There’s an entire galaxy at the center of each image, and the bright points in rings around them are gravitationally lensed images of quasars behind the galaxy. These images are false-color and are composites of data from different telescopes and instruments. ©2025 TDCOSMO Collaboration et al. CC-BY-ND

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©2025 TDCOSMO Collaboration et al. CC-BY-ND

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