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Old 15-12-2008, 03:07 PM
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Dissecting a Supermassive Black Hole with natural magnifying glasses

Now this is pretty amazing stuff, inside the disc of a Supermassive Black Hole, 10 billion lightyears away with detail 1000 times better than the best scopes in the world....

http://www.eso.org/public/outreach/p.../pr-47-08.html

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Old 15-12-2008, 03:20 PM
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Absalutly Fabulous
Thanks for posting Peter
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Old 15-12-2008, 04:08 PM
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Quite a mind boggling bit of analysis!
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Old 15-12-2008, 05:21 PM
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Thanks for that Peter I have not read past the abstract yet but this is real exciting stuff..thanks for posting.
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Old 15-12-2008, 05:34 PM
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I came across the article on science daily this morning, read the title
'What! I didn't know you could daisy chain some magifying glasses in front of a telescope to increase mag! Why weren't we doing this 500 years ago!?!'
Then i read on...gravitational lensing, that's more like it

Pretty amazing stuff!
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