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Old 20-February-2009, 05:11 PM
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Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_lensing

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A gravitational lens is formed when the light from a very distant, bright source (such as a quasar) is "bent" around a massive object (such as a cluster of galaxies) between the source object and the observer. The process is known as gravitational lensing, and is one of the predictions of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity
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