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gravita'tional lens'



Astron.
a heavy, dense body, as a galaxy, that lies along our line of sight to a more distant object, as a quasar, and whose gravitational field refracts the light of that object, splitting it into multiple images as seen from the earth.

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gravitational fieldgravitational mass
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