Albert Einstein1912
During work recorded in a 1912 notebook, Einstein calculated how a foreground mass could bend light from a background source and produce the geometry of a gravitational lens.
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During work recorded in a 1912 notebook, Einstein calculated how a foreground mass could bend light from a background source and produce the geometry of a gravitational lens.
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