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Einstein Didn’t Think We’d Ever See This: Gravitational Lensing Explained, with Matt O’Dowd

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Gravity bends light, so the universe has natural telescopes that magnify, multiply and even replay distant objects. They let us see things no human-built telescope could reach alone.

From 'Matt O’Dowd’s Favorite Object in the Universe': https://youtu.be/rDbwGDGr4e0?si=G2KfPEYgQlfspwBk

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