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Originally Posted by xelasnave
I notice that so many artist impressions follow this approach when attempting to show gravitational lensing... and to me the representation is entirely incorrect..you may notice in the many artist representations that light bends around an object where as I think general relativity would see the light bending in and then out again... that is space is bent in toward an object and bends out having passed...
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light can be bent both ways.
But, with lensing what we see is the light that would otherwise have streamed past be bent towards the earth.