If light has no mass, how does it get pulled into black holes?

Answer 1

No mass is required of an object for it to be influenced gravitationally. In fact under special conditions (like total eclipse) it is possible to make observations of stars that are close to the sun, from our view on Earth.

These stars shift position from where we've seen them when they are farther from the sun - because the sun's mass bends space. The light rays are bent a bit by the Sun's gravity.

That's why black holes are black: gravity works by warping space so much that light can't escape it.

Actually, the term for space in this context is "space-time." Read more about it below.

Answer 2

Light is energy.....energy made of photones thats a small particle..
only black hole can attract small particles like photones

Event horizon

The "surface" of a black hole is the so-called event horizon, an imaginary surface surrounding the mass of the black hole. Stephen Hawking proved that the topology of the event horizon of a non-spinning black hole is a sphere. At the event horizon, the escape velocity is equal to the speed of light. Anything inside the event horizon, including a photon, is prevented from escaping across the event horizon by the extremely strong gravitational field. Particles from outside this region can fall in, cross the event horizon, and will never be able to leave.

Since external observers cannot probe the interior of a black hole, according to classical general relativity, black holes can be entirely characterised according to three parameters: mass, angular momentum, and electric charge. This principle is summarised by the saying, coined by John Wheeler, "black holes have no hair" meaning that there are no features that distinguish one black hole from another, other than mass, charge, and angular momentum.

Answer 3

Gravity compresses everything and attempts to create a vacuum around an object that now has a smaller displacement. A vacuum cannot exist in the presence of matter so the void that gravity attempts to create is instantly filled by whatever is close and the void is prevented from forming. Space is not a void. It is full of cosmic dust particles and light particles at the very least. As the space that light is traveling through moves to prevent a gravitational void from being created, the light moves with it. Light has the escape velocity needed to escape most gravitational fields and to only be imperceptibly affected by others. It takes a very strong field to capture something moving at the speed of light.

Answer 4

Because the black hole changes the shape of space. The projection of a geodesic in 4-space onto a surface in 2-space has large curvature in the vicinity of a black hole, so the path of light appear curved.

Answer 5

Like everything else in the universe, light must follow the shape of spacetime. In the presence of gravity, spacetime is curved. In the presence of the immense gravity of a black hole spacetime is curved back on itself, thus light can not escape from a black hole.

Answer 6

Light is also made of substances. That's why it gets pulled in the black hole.

Answer 7

Light is energy, this energy is packed very very small and are called photons. They are like little packets of energy that travel very fast due to electricity and magnetism. Blackholes are able to pull these photons do to the magnetism of photons and the strong pull force of the blackhole.

Answer 8

Light is composed of matter waves which can be considered as mass as well

Answer 9

Light is made of particles and 2 my knowledge nothin escapes 4rm d blackhole.

Answer 10

gustav hertz won the nobel prize for weighing the electron, and the entire system of gravity is a universal range for measuring the breakdown of a system's structure, and everything does this constantly, communicating w/ itself and growing heavier