El Reg, you really need to find correspondents who have a basic command of English, or use a sub editor.
Massive gravitational lens flare unveils EINSTEIN CROSS SUPERNOVA
“That's odd” must be a scientist's favourite phrase: a set of images of a distant supernova has shown off a phenomenon first predicted more than 50 years ago in 1964. The supernova was spotted in Hubble images by Dr Patrick Kelly of Berkeley while searching for distant galaxies – and because of the effect of gravitational …
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Friday 6th March 2015 07:54 GMT Chris Miller
Gravitational lensing was first predicted by Einstein: the presence of enough mass, he reasoned, would bend light passing an object.
Not quite right. Newtonian physics predicts the bending of light in a gravitational field (the calculation is A-level standard, and was first performed in the 18th century - the fact that light may be massless doesn't matter because all objects with a given velocity and initial position, whose mass is small in comparison with the gravitating mass, follow essentially the same path). But General Relativity predicts a deviation twice as large, which is what Eddington famously measured.
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