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light entering a black hole's singularity
I already understand that light cannot escape a black hole after passing the event horizon, so please do not explain that to me. What I would like to know is this:
a well known fact about light (a ...
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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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What happens to a photon in a black hole?
Assume a photon enters the event horizon of a black hole. The gravity of the black hole will draw the photon into the singularity eventually. Doesn't the photon come to rest and therefore lose it's ...
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What happens to light that falls into a black hole?
When light enters a black hole, what happens to it?
I imagine the photons will either fall into the singularity, or the light will orbit just inside the event horizon indefinitely.
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