gravitational warping

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    Korinthian

    So the gravity lens is what’s warping what should be the relatively straight line of that galaxy?

    Aquaman43

    Are galaxies in straight lines?

    Korinthian

    I guess? Just speculating what we’re looking at.

    Tiggle Bitties

    Gravity lens warps everything around the main gravity source into a circle, kind of like a concave lens. It allows us to see ‘around’ large wells, but the curvature evident in the photograph probably has more less obvious evidence backing up the presence of a very massive object there.

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