A Lensed Castle

The Castle on the Mall in Washington, D.C., as viewed from the Natural History museum.

Photo credit: Smithsonian Photo by Eric Long.

Now we place a black hole with the mass of Saturn over the middle of the Mall, and view the Castle through the resulting gravitational lens.

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Note that there are two images of each of the middle towers, one inside the ring and one outside.
The inner image is turned inside-out.

These images form the logo for the CfA-Arizona Space Telescope Lens Survey, CASTLeS .
Click here to see a press release describing CASTLeS and these images.