Makes me wonder, if you have a big enough telescope and sit in the right place and look in the right direction and wait long enough, you might see your past.
Good news: Someone named a star after you.
Bad news: It just went supernova.
So the theory was the cause of the phenomenon?
Super Nova SS.
By physics, a gravity lens should never form four distinct perfect images on the ordinal points of a compass around the gravity source, it should form a distorted Einstein Ring. There is something else at work here than the simplistic gravity lensing artifact being claimed. What is the focusing modality? Is gravity a quad-polar phenomenon? Or does is it mono-polar as all of our observations seem to show?
It takes millions of years for the light of a distant star to reach Earth, even traveling at lightspeed. When I look at the night sky, I often wonder how many of those stars up there still actually exist. Some of them may have gone nova and expired millions of years ago, and their light is just now reaching our eyes. Something to think about.
'Sounds like some prestigious award you pin on an Astrophysicist ....