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Old 20-February-2009, 05:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Jeff Root View Post
Can you find the term for when the light from a not very distant source is "bent" around a massive object?
Gravitational lensing, whereby the term "distant" is relative... What I have never heard is the term used in conjunction with the light emitted from a massive object.
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