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What Is Gravitational Lensing?

šŸ’” The Answer

  • Massive objects bend spacetime, causing light to curve around them.
  • This effect magnifies and distorts images of distant galaxies.
  • Astronomers use lensing to study dark matter and exoplanets.
  • Einstein's general relativity predicted this phenomenon.

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