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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe _Astrophys. J._ 767, 111 (2013) A massive foreground object can bend light from a background source. Such gravitational lenses are usually

stars, black holes, galaxy clusters or even dark matter. Now Philip Muirhead and co-workers report that a small dead star, a white dwarf, within a binary system is warping the light from its

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spectacles. _Nature Phys_ 9, 262 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys2627 Download citation * Published: 02 May 2013 * Issue Date: May 2013 * DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys2627 SHARE

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