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- adjective astronomy Affected by, or detected using
gravitational lensing
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If all of the quasars in the study are "microlensed" in this way, that would suggest there are a huge number of these invisible lensing objects floating around - enough to account for all of the universe's dark matter.
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The black hole idea would get a boost if quasars that are definitely microlensed - identifiable as the lenses produce multiple, yet slightly different, images of the quasar - show the same light signature as those in this study. and you'll get:
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