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Euclid’s release flags about 15,000 potential gravitational lenses

Euclid’s release flags about 15,000 potential strong gravitational lens systems—not confirmed discoveries. The European Space Agency says this is the largest catalogue of strong-lens candidates assembled so far, larger than previous catalogues combined. Because the same telescope observed the candidates in a consistent way, researchers can compare them statistically. The value is in having thousands of possible lenses gathered on the same footing.

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