Sentences with phrase «bent spacetime»
The star is visible because the galaxy cluster's gravity bent spacetime around the cluster, making it act like a cosmic magnifying glass.
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For example: If you have a massive object, it will bend spacetime, like the famous example of the bowling ball suspended on a rubber sheet.
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Spacetime bends around the mass and becomes curved.
In 1915, Albert Einstein explained that gravity arises when massive objects such as Earth warp spacetime, bending the otherwise straight trajectories of free - falling objects.
Through such musings Einstein realized that gravity is merely the bending of spacetime by mass and energy.
In Einstein's theory of general relativity, planets and stars bend, drag and otherwise contort the taffylike fabric of spacetime.
WORLD OF TOMORROW EPISODE TWO: THE BURDEN OF OTHER PEOPLE»S THOUGHTS - A mind - bending animated spacetime odyssey with existential implications that left me so overwhelmed I couldn't speak.