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<p>Images &#8211; The colorized images, identified in the study as possible gravitational lenses, in side-by-side comparisons with more recent Hubble Space Telescope images (black and white). (Credits: Hubble Space Telescope, Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey)</p>

Seeing the Universe Through New Lenses

A new study by an international team of scientists revealed hundreds of new strong gravitational lensing candidates based on a deep dive into data collected for a U.S. Department of Energy-supported telescope project in Arizona called the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument. The study, published in The Astrophysical Journal, benefited from the winning machine-learning algorithm in an international science competition.