Einstein rings as a tool for estimating distances and the mass of a Schwarzschild black hole
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The bending of light due to the curvature of spacetime close to a black hole is so strong that light can even return to the point of emittance yielding an Einstein ring. Using the analytic solution of the geodesic equation in Schwarzschild spacetime and a distant star or a flash of light, we will be able to determine the mass of a black hole as well as the distance of the observer to this black hole, at least in principle.
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