Yes! Not only black holes but all stars bend light rays that pass through their surroundings. According to Einstein's theory of relativity, a black holes bends the space-time consortium around it. As a result, a light passing through it will bend and alter its course. This natural phenomena is being used by scientists to study the stars that are present behind a massive star or a black hole. When the light from the star comes near the black hole, its course is altered and it can be captured by our telescopes. This natural phenomena is called "gravitational lensing".
2006-09-02 17:10:33
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answered by s s 2
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Gravity doesnt affect light directly. From the lights point of view it always only travels in straight lines.
Gravity affects light indirectly, by bending the geometry of the universe and redefining what a straight path is.
A black hole makes spaghetti out of the geometry of the universe. After the light passes the event horizon going into a black hole, all infinitely long straight lines that it can travel are inside the event horizon.
The thing that makes a black hole work is the same thing that makes all gravity work: mass. There is matter bending spacetime. There is a "critical density" of matter where gravity stops just causing a constant deformation, and starts causing a constant deformation rate. Its where spacetime stops acting like bent solid matter, and starts behaving like a fluid. Solid matter, like a spring, when you put a "small" constant load, has a constant deformation. Liquid matter when you put a small constant load has continuous deformation, at a constant deformation rate.
The kind of densities we are talking about is like compressing the matter from an entire mountain into the volume of an atom. There is room in there, but it takes a TON of work.
2006-09-02 14:05:45
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answered by Curly 6
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This is why it's called a BLACK hole.
The mass in the center of a black hole is so dense that it deforms and warps the space surrounding it so badly that any light that is emitted is literally bent back on itself and travels back into the black hole.
Interesting note: Steven Hawking has presented very credible evidence that the old accepted wisdom that nothing can escape a black hole may be false - and, in fact, the black hole may be constantly emitting radiation due, in part, to the enormous energy contained in it.
2006-09-02 13:54:49
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answered by LeAnne 7
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The black hole is strong enough to pull all the galactic matter around it and because ogf its enormous increase in gravity . Gravity is not just like a magnetic force . It is a singular force tha can attract everything -noting excepted.So it can pull even light and since light is unable to escape fromit , we do ot see the black hole . we need light to reflect from any object to see it . since the lightis i sunable to overcome the gravith of the black hole , nothing of the star that turned into a red giant and pulled all the neighbouriing planets and all galactic matter in to itself as in a whirl pool is visble to us .Its presence is understood by the nuclear radiation only. even the density of a medium can bend the ray of light as we see in the case of the light passing from air into water and in to the prism.The bending of the ray happens becauseof of the change in the speed of the light . The speed of ligh tis reduced by the denser medium..no wonder that such a light could be attracted by the intensity of infinite gravity.
2006-09-02 15:03:24
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answered by Infinity 7
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A black hollow has such stable gravity that it could bend mild into it -- fake this means that mild has mass -- fake a black hollow's gravitation is so extreme it "bends" or "warps" area. the mild itself isn't in some way "bent" and traveling in a "different than quickly" line. From a distance an observer might see the mild look to "bend" yet whilst an actually "grid" of strains of the area time continuum have been seen interior the history, it could be clean that it fairly is not the mild that have been given bent. Draw a quickly line on a sheet of paper and fall down up the paper. the line continues to be quickly.... rather, it rather is... it genuinely is... its in simple terms the paper it is crumpled. If that line you drew have been a hollow tube, you may desire to be certain throught it... or extra suited yet a strand of fiber optic cable.... the mild could nonetheless trip with the aid of it in a "quickly line" with the aid of what you as a miles off observer see as a fall down.
2016-11-24 19:03:34
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answered by Anonymous
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yes the gravity is very strong
it absorbs even light
black hole is made of anti matter so it pulls thing with a tremendous force
2006-09-03 22:19:35
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answered by rahul s 2
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Yes
2006-09-02 13:55:19
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answered by jude l 2
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Yes. Though no one can get close enough to it to really know anymore than that it exists. Here is my source below and you can see a complete article on black holes.
2006-09-02 22:06:59
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answered by Anonymous
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Yes
Black hole- An object or region of space where the pull of gravity is so strong that nothing can escape from it, i.e. the escape velocity exceeds the speed of light.
http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/B/blackhole.html
2006-09-02 13:46:53
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answered by Anonymous
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we know light is a electromagnetic wave constituting a continum of photons,they have some mass since the gravity of the balck hole tends to infinity the gravitational attraction of a photon matters so it will be pulled in and emitted as radiation.
2006-09-03 05:14:25
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answered by Anonymous
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