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Lightbender Movie No. 1: Text
Let's imagine ourselves looking toward a celestial body as we orbit about it.
We would expect to see the stars moving straight across the sky behind it as we spin. However, if that body is a compact object such as a Schwarzschild (non-rotating) black hole, we might see a variety of pec
uliar visual effects.
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Last modified by David Curtis, NCSA, September 21, 1995.