If light has no mass, then how does it get sucked into the black hole? How is it that it gets trapped in the black hole? Google gave me explanations that weren't too helpful. Can someone actually explain it?
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Question about black holes
If light has no mass, then how does it get sucked into the black hole? How is it that it gets trapped in the black hole? Google gave me explanations that weren't too helpful. Can someone actually explain it?
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Everything has a mass. Everything has a weight. This includes light.
That is why everything can be pulled into a black hole.
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Mass and energy are pretty much the same thing. Photons have mass.
Are you sleeping in physics class?
Edit: Anyway, to explain your question, it's that the pull of gravity is strong enough to pull the light into the black hole, even though light is very fast.
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Took the words straight from my mouth.Originally Posted by Xenonight2
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black hole is a massive amount of gravitational pull >> huge gravitational pull + light = gravitational pull sucking in light kay? think of it as the earth keeping us down
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This might help some more:
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physic...oton_mass.html
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I suck at physics, but get familiar with the concept of mass-energy. And photons aren't really massive. You can't crash two photons together.
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