ocr: CONCAVE LENS VIRIUAL IMAGE. - - - - LIGHT RAYS DIVERGING FROM LIGHT RAYS OBJECT - LENS. A concave lens is thicker at its edges than at its center. Iti makes light rays diverge (spread out). When your eyes receive the diverged rays from an object, they see a smaller virtual image of the object on the other side - of the lens. Contact lenses to correct short sight are concave lenses.