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Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Gravitational Lensing

Tuesday, April 29, 2014 Posted by Arun Vishwakarma , , No comments


When light passes close to a massive body like a galaxy, black hole, etc. the path of light bends slightly towards that massive body due to its huge Gravitational Pull. This phenomenon is known as Gravitational Lensing.


Now, as we all know that Gravity is a function of Mass and light which is elementarily mass less, how can it be bent by gravity ? Mean how can something which is mass less could interact with Gravity ?

There is one explanation which I've observed and analyzed and it could be the possible answer.


 Gravity distorts Space-Time framework. Massive body creates a depression in the very fabric of space-time just like a cone of ice-cream and light always go straight and tends to cover the shortest possible distance. So when light passes close to a massive body it covers a straight line path in the depressed space-time region and when we plot its path in 3-Dimensional space, it makes an arc bending around that body.

This is the best of my observational analysis of space-time distortion due to the strong gravitational field.

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