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
Leonardo’s sketch is already implicitly drawn to scale, with a detail of the ratchet mechanism shown at a higher level of magnification.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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