In the context of gravitational lensing, arcs refer to the distorted and elongated images of background objects, like galaxies or quasars, caused by the bending of light around a massive foreground object, such as a galaxy cluster. These arcs can provide valuable information about the mass distribution of the lensing object and are a key observational feature in the study of gravitational lensing phenomena.
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