Black holes bend light from distant stars
Black holes' extreme gravity warps spacetime, bending starlight into dramatic distortions that reveal their hidden presence and act as cosmic magnifying glasses.
Black holes act like cosmic lenses, dramatically bending light from distant stars through gravitational lensing. Their immense gravity warps spacetime itself, a phenomenon predicted by Einstein's 1915 theory of general relativity and first observed in 1919 with the Sun.
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