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What is the name of the effect where light bends around massive objects?

  • Gravitational lensing
  • Redshift
  • Diffraction

The answer is Gravitational lensing. Predicted by Einstein.

Gravitational lens

A gravitational lens is matter, such as a cluster of galaxies or a point particle, that bends light from a distant source as it travels toward an observer. The amount of gravitational lensing is described by Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity. If light is treated as corpuscles travelling at the speed of light, Newtonian physics also predicts the bending of light, but only half of that predicted by general relativity.

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