That makes me also wonder, what's the light?
2006-07-22 10:39:25 · 7 answers · asked by Maaka 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
Light is made-up of photons. Photons have mass,(itsy bitsy mass). Black holes have incredible amounts of mass. All mass is attracted to other mass, (gravity). Light attracted to black hole. (black hole is also attracted to light in equal proportion to masses)
2006-07-22 10:49:48 · answer #1 · answered by Don 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Light Can Not Escape The Immense Gravitational Pull
2006-07-22 10:43:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Light isnt absorbed by black holes... really.
Light always goes perfectly straight when its in a vacuum.
Gravity doesnt bend the light, it bends the definition of a straight line, and curves geometry, so the "apparent" direction of the light is changed.
A black hole doesnt "absorb it", it just creates a local deformation of spacetime that is so serious that light passing through it is bent into a complete 360 degree circle. It always goes straight, but all straight paths entering a black hole are so deformed that they dont go out again.. they become circles on the inside.
2006-07-22 10:47:09 · answer #3 · answered by Curly 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Every gravitating body has what is called the 'escape velocity'. It is how fast something would have to start out from the surface to escape to infinity against the gravitational field. For a black hole, that escape velocity is the speed of light. This means that nothing can escape the gravitational force of a black hole from the surface of the black hole.
2006-07-22 10:55:20 · answer #4 · answered by mathematician 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A black hole has such a strong gravitational pull that light can't escape. If you think of light as a particle (photon) then it sort of makes sense that strong forces can affect the particles. After all, electromagnetic waves (including nonvisible light) can be affected by electric and magnetic forces, so why not gravitational forces?
2006-07-22 10:47:03 · answer #5 · answered by Jacqueline Sherry 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
mild isn't absorbed; this is sucked in like a vacuum. mild, like something, is plagued by gravity, yet with the aid of fact it is so quickly, this is a perplexing area of do. Black holes are a super fold in the area-time continuum, inflicting such huge quantities of gravitational pull, that no longer even mild can escape. no person incredibly is conscious the place all of it is going, yet there's a thought that there are malicious program holes interior black holes, transporting the situation and mild-weight with the aid of time and area. word: think of of it like this: Any form of mass, which includes a planet, reason a bend proportional to their mass in area-time, this is what reasons gravity. this is like a ball on a taut piece of fabric. mild will dip with the cloth because it passes with the aid of. With a black hollow, this is like an infinitely deep bowl/hollow in the cloth. instead on in basic terms bending with it, the mild is sucked in. desire that helps!
2016-10-08 05:11:41 · answer #6 · answered by sashi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The gravitational pull of a black hole is so great that not even light can escape its pull.
2006-07-22 10:44:01 · answer #7 · answered by s_t_p10 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋