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Gravitational Lenses

Gravitational Lenses


Depicts: Gravitational Lenses
Copyright: Kavan Ratnatunga (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD)

A gravitational lens is produced by the enormous gravitational field of a massive object which bends light to magnify, brighten and distort the image of a more distant object. Depending on the alignment between the objects and the mass distribution of the foreground lens, the more distant object can be smeared into arcs or split into pairs, triples, or even quadruple images.
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