Meaning of gravitational lens | Babel Free

Definitions

A distribution of matter whose gravitational field bends the path of light rays sufficiently to distort, magnify or multiply images of more distant objects.

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Examples

“Thus the galactic gravitational lens effect is not important in maintaining the radio reference coordinate system with mas accuracy, if quasars as fiduciary points are pertinently selected.”

“The two other examples of gravitational lenses discussed above have not been modeled as elaborately.”

“Subsequent discoveries of several more examples of gravitational lenses eliminated all doubts about gravitational focussing predicted by general relativity.”

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