magnification
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With two black holes acting as gravitational lenses, the region where extreme magnification can occur becomes much larger.
From Science Daily • Jun. 5, 2026
So you have no field of vision, but you have incredible magnification.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026
It’s a magnification of childhood playtime, a puppet show in which the puppets have broken loose from the puppeteers.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 16, 2025
It appeared in Hubble’s image three times because of distortion and magnification from a massive cluster of galaxies sitting between it and Earth—an effect called gravitational lensing.
From Scientific American • Jul. 11, 2023
These, under high magnification, turn out to be bacteria, living in symbiosis with the spirochetes and the protozoan, probably contributing enzymes that break down the cellulose.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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