Astronomers Zoom in on a Galaxy 9 Billion Light-years Away Thanks to Gravitational Lensing

(Credit: MIT/Image courtesy of the researchers)When even the most powerful telescopes can’t capture the views you want, it helps to have natural magnifying glasses to rely on. In a paper published Monday in Nature Astronomy, researchers describe how they zoomed in to capture a young, star-forming galaxy roughly 9 billion light-years away in X-ray light.
To study such a distant galaxy, the researchers took advantage of the fact that massive objects can warp space-time around them and m