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Description Light sent in different directions being deflected by a nearby massive body. Created for use in Wikipedia: General relativity
Date 14 September 2007
Source self-made, using numerical integration methods to solve the geodetic equation for light near a spherical massive object (Schwarzschild metric)
Author Markus Poessel ( Mapos)

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