Sentences with phrase «distant objects behind»
They are so massive that they warp spacetime enough to distort light from more distant objects behind them.
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This giant cluster acts as a powerful natural lens by bending and magnifying the light of far - more - distant objects behind it.
Light rays emanating from a distant object behind a cluster pass through the distorted space - time, which causes the rays to bend and converge as they move toward an observer.
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The cluster is so massive that it magnifies the light from faraway galaxies behind it due to a phenomenon called gravitational lensing, where the curvature of space acts like a giant funhouse mirror to stretch and brighten distant objects.
A single «runaway» star in a distant star cluster could explain how a massive supernova avoided collapsing into a black hole, leaving behind a remnant object instead.