Data from the DESI (Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument) Legacy Imaging Surveys have revealed over 1200 new gravitational lenses, approximately doubling the number of known lenses. Discovered using machine learning trained on real data, these warped and stretched images of distant galaxies provide astronomers with a flood of new targets with which to measure fundamental properties of the Universe such as the Hubble constant, which describes the expanding Universe.
The release, images and videos are available on:
https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2104/
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NOIRLab Communications, Education & Engagement
Jan. 13, 2021
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