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From the archives: How a cosmic illusion proved Einstein’s relativity

15 May 2019

40 years ago, a radical new design of telescope showed that two cosmic objects were one – confirming a prediction of Einstein’s theories made decades earlier

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From the archives: How a cosmic illusion proved Einstein’s relativity

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