GRAVITATIONAL LENS


Meaning of GRAVITATIONAL LENS in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ noun ]

Date: 1937

: a massive celestial object (as a galaxy) that bends and focuses the light of another more distant object (as a quasar) by gravity and that is usually detected by the multiple images it forms of the second object

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