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← ScienceWhich risk increases when a gravitational lens enhances distant starlight?
A)Increased chromatic aberration
B)Spurious time dilation analyses✓
C)Reduction in available photons
D)Decreased parallax measurement accuracy
💡 Explanation
In strong lensing, variations in spacetime curvature near massive objects cause different light paths resulting in variable arrival times; because mass-energy equivalence influences the path length, misinterpreted arrival times cause incorrect cosmological distance estimations. Therefore spurious, incorrectly interpreted, time dilation assessments will confound researchers rather than improving accuracy.
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