Sentences with phrase «bending around the cluster»
The bluish circle around the galaxies is the light from a more distant galaxy bending around the cluster's center due to gravity from both stars and dark matter.
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Method: Euclid will measure gravitational lensing, where light from far - off objects bends around a massive body (a regular star or cluster of dark matter), to determine dark matter's distribution.
The star is visible because the galaxy cluster's gravity bent spacetime around the cluster, making it act like a cosmic magnifying glass.
The aftershocks clustered around the periphery of the rupture zone, both on the seaward and landward side of the plate boundary and reflected normal faulting behavior — caused by the bending, extending or stretching of rock — rather than the thrust faulting of the mainshock.
That's basically a light cord which can be bent and twisted around the light cluster.