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The effect black holes have on light
We all know that light loses its energy when it is moving through expanding space and time. And sense a black hole can be summed up to a super compressed space time, shouldn't that mean that a photon ...
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Where does the energy of a photon trying to escape a black hole go?
I've heard "light cannot escape a black hole" explained several ways. One is that if a photon inside the event horizon tries to escape a black hole it loses energy to gravity. As it loses energy its ...
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What happens to a photon when it enters a black hole?
The photon has a mass of 0, but it has energy because of its motion. When it is sucked into the black hole and becomes a singularity, it loses its energy because it is no longer moving. It is not ...
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