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Gravitational Lensing by Galaxies
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•We’ve been talking about lensing arcs by clusters.  Individual galaxies can and do lens background objects, particularly quasars.
•Not because quasars are more likely to be lensed, but they are bright distant point sources and easier to spot.
•Originally found by chance, more recently targeted surveys in the radio, by HST.