The Cloverleaf quasar

The Cloverleaf Quasar, so named because it is actually a single object appearing as four, courtesy of gravitational lensing. In this phenomenon, foreground galaxies bend and magnify the distant quasar's light into four point sources of illumination.

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ID:cloverleaf-quasar
Typ:Observation
Publiceringsdatum:3 december 2009 23:21
Storlek:830 x 816 px

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Namn:Cloverleaf quasar, H 1413+117
Typ:Early Universe : Galaxy : Type : Gravitationally Lensed
Early Universe : Galaxy : Activity : AGN : Quasar
Avstånd:z=2.56 (rödförskjutning)
Kategori:Cosmology
Galaxies
Quasars and Black Holes

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