Over 1200 new gravitational lenses found in new survey

DESI (Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument) Legacy Imaging Surveys data was used to locate 1200 new gravitational lenses. It "approximately doubling the number of known lenses," according to the National Science Foundation's Noirlab. Credit: KPNO/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Legacy Imaging Survey, D. Munizaga, P. Marenfeld, Hubble Space Telescope/Chandra X-ray Observatory. Music: zero-project - The Lower Dungeons (zero-project.gr).