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+-   The Accidental Astrophysicists-> on Saturday June 14 2008, @10:16AM Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 14 2008, @10:16AM
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An anonymous reader writes "Dmitry Khavinson and Genevra Neumann didn't know anything about astrophysics. They were just doing mathematics, like they always do, following their curiosity. But five days after they posted one of their results on a preprint server, they got an email that said "Congratulations! You've proven Sun Hong Rhie's astrophysics conjecture on gravitational lensing!" Turns out that when gravity causes light rays to bend, it can make one star look like many. But until Khavinson and Nuemann's work, astrophysicists weren't sure just how many. Their proof in mathematics settled the question."
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