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Astronomers using Caltech's Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO) have found evidence for a bizarre lensing system in space, in which a large assemblage of stars is magnifying a much more distant ...

A team of scientists used a clever physics trick to study a galaxy that’s otherwise so far away that no observatories on or orbiting the Earth could get a good look at it. The technique, known as ...

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Jet material ejected from a black hole is magnified in new observations from Caltech's Owens Valley Radio Observatory. This discovery provides the best view yet of blobs of hot gas that shoot out from ...