There is no reason not to call it gravitational lensing. That's obviously
what it is.

Saying that it isn't gravitational lensing because the light comes from
the lensing mass is like saying the Moon doesn't rotate because it
revolves about the Earth, and nobody would be that silly!

-- Jeff, in Minneapolis

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