How to Use gravitational lens in a Sentence

gravitational lens

noun

• Some of that light heads right for us, while some beams follow a curved path through a gravitational lens, like a massive cluster.
  — Paul Sutter, Space.com, 20 Dec. 2025
• The closer that light passes to the warping object, or gravitational lens, the more strongly its otherwise straight path gets curved.
  — Robert Lea, Space.com, 30 Mar. 2026
• The enormous cluster acts as a gravitational lens, bending and magnifying light from objects behind it.
  — Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 25 Sep. 2026
• As light from a background source passes the curvature of space caused by the massive foreground object, or gravitational lens, its usually straight path becomes curved.
  — Robert Lea, Space.com, 8 June 2026
• This effort will focus on the galactic bulge, where star density is much higher, and will take advantage of the fact that a planet can act as a small gravitational lens, briefly brightening any background stars that pass between it and Earth.
  — John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 23 Apr. 2026