The Java documentation for Class says:

Class objects are constructed automatically by the Java Virtual Machine as classes are loaded and by calls to the defineClass method in the class loader.

What are these Class objects? Are they the same as objects instantiated from a class by calling new?

Also, for example object.getClass().getName() how can everything be typecasted to superclass Class, even if I don't inherit from java.lang.Class?

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