The Cloverleaf Quasar
The Cloverleaf Quasar, so named because it is actually a single object appearing as four, courtesy of gravitational lensing. In this phenomenon, foreground galaxies bend and magnify the distant quasar's light into four point sources of illumination.
Credit:ESO
About the Image
Id: | cloverleaf-quasar |
Type: | Observation |
Release date: | 3 December 2009, 23:21 |
Size: | 830 x 816 px |
About the Object
Name: | Cloverleaf quasar, H 1413+117 |
Type: | • Early Universe : Galaxy : Type : Gravitationally Lensed • Early Universe : Galaxy : Activity : AGN : Quasar |
Distance: | z=2.56 (redshift) |
Category: | • Cosmology • Galaxies • Quasars and Black Holes |
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