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Description: Left: unperturbed lightrays in a flat spacetime, right: deflection and delay in the vicinity of a nonrotating mass of radius rs=2GM/c². The lamp is placed at r=10rs, the initial density is 1 ray per degree.
Title: Shapiro delay
Credit: Own work - Code (Mathematica Syntax): Vacuum/Newton/Schwarzschild/Kerr-Simulator
Author: Yukterez (Simon Tyran, Vienna)
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