gravitational lens
noun
: a massive celestial object (such as a galaxy) that bends and focuses the light of another more distant object (such as a quasar) by gravity and that is usually detected by the multiple images it forms of the second object
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The image, the deepest infrared shot ever taken, shows a foreground galaxy cluster called SMACS 0723 that is acting as gravitational lens, revealing much more distant galaxies behind it.
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Christopher Cokinos, Discover Magazine, 12 July 2022
As light from distant galaxies passes through dark matter, the gravity of the invisible material bends that light, distorting it - this is called a gravitational lens.
—Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2012
Such mirror images arise when an object’s light takes multiple paths around a gravitational lens.
—Fionna M. D. Samuels, Scientific American, 21 July 2022
These CubeSats could then make a 25-year journey to the solar gravitational lens (SGL) point.
—Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 26 July 2022
But the galaxy cluster captured in the image, known as SMACS 0723, serves as a gravitational lens, bringing to light more distant galaxies.
—Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 12 July 2022
With microlensing, a foreground object can act as a gravitational lens to bend and amplify the light from a distant background star.
—Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 11 June 2022
Despite the far-out nature of the solar gravitational lens, Turyshev, Macintosh and Madurowicz are of one mind: thinking about its possibilities now is worthwhile.
—Allison Gasparini, Scientific American, 25 May 2022
The mass of that closer galaxy acts as a gravitational lens, bending SPT0418–47’s rays toward Earth so that ALMA can get a better image.
—Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 12 Aug. 2020
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Christopher Cokinos, Discover Magazine, 12 July 2022
As light from distant galaxies passes through dark matter, the gravity of the invisible material bends that light, distorting it - this is called a gravitational lens.
—Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2012
Such mirror images arise when an object’s light takes multiple paths around a gravitational lens.
—Fionna M. D. Samuels, Scientific American, 21 July 2022
These CubeSats could then make a 25-year journey to the solar gravitational lens (SGL) point.
—Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 26 July 2022
But the galaxy cluster captured in the image, known as SMACS 0723, serves as a gravitational lens, bringing to light more distant galaxies.
—Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 12 July 2022
With microlensing, a foreground object can act as a gravitational lens to bend and amplify the light from a distant background star.
—Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 11 June 2022
Despite the far-out nature of the solar gravitational lens, Turyshev, Macintosh and Madurowicz are of one mind: thinking about its possibilities now is worthwhile.
—Allison Gasparini, Scientific American, 25 May 2022
The mass of that closer galaxy acts as a gravitational lens, bending SPT0418–47’s rays toward Earth so that ALMA can get a better image.
—Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 12 Aug. 2020
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