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The weight of cosmic lenses

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A technique for weighing galaxy clusters using distortions of the cosmic microwave background is entering an era of precision measurements.

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Fig. 1: Light from the CMB gets deflected by intervening matter.

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Madhavacheril, M.S. The weight of cosmic lenses. Nat Astron 1, 751–752 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-017-0286-y

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