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What Is Gravitational Lensing?
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- 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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