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The power of a cosmic lens to magnify and split the light from a distant, mass-accreting giant black hole into four components has allowed researchers to measure the black hole's spin. See Letter p.207

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Figure 1: A quadruple quasar.

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  1. Guido Risaliti is at the INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, 50125 Florence, Italy, and at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.,

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Risaliti, G. Cosmic lens reveals spinning black hole. Nature 507, 173–174 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature13209

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