Naive outsider here...

The "single naked" titling is a bit misleading, since there are hundreds of these challenging current theory.

But how often are those we do see are replicated in the so-call smear of lensing? Does this instance (QSO1) presenting 3 times create more analysis opportunities?

E.g., the 7.3-hour observation that produced higher-resolution data that checked out as a vortex of hydrogen: would we expect to see the same features in all three images (modulo lensing transforms)?

Reading that preprint (at [1]), it seemed they only used 1 of 3 (image A).

[1] preprint: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.21748