Correct meaning of SecondActivity.class in intents in Android?

Intent intent = new Intent(this, SecondActivity.class);
startService(intent);

What i understood is, till this line of code "SecondActivity object" is not created and we are sending Runtime data of SecondActivity to Intent. So, what i think is at runtime compiler adds some extra code to second Activity.

I know this is related to Reflection but still i don't understand correctly. Does ".class" denotes a "static Variable class" of type "Class" in "SecondActivity" class at runtime, something like,

static Class class = .......

Are we accessing Class object through "class static Variable"? Does compiler at runtime adds this static variable through which we are getting "Class object" of SecondActivity? Is my understanding correct?