Does Gravity due to mass bend a magnetic field?

Question

didnt gravity bend light?

Answer 1

Yes, space-time is the playground for everything else, and the mass/energy concentration tells space-time how to curve.

Here's a thought. If I toss a bar magnet into a black hole, the instant its leading south pole crosses the event horizon, does the trailing north pole briefly become a magnetic monopole? No field lines could be coming back out of the horizon to complete the magnetic field circuit, even for individual domains in the magnet.

Answer 2

Gravity doesn't really bend light either. It bends SPACE!

So yes, a magnetic field will be bent the same way light will be bent.

And no, neither light nor a magnetic field are bent by gravity, they are just as they would be in the absence of it, only working through a curved space.

Answer 3

I would assume not. I know it does bend light - NASA uses that fact to look for planets (see this month's pop. sci.), but light has a mass (negligable, but still there). Since a magnetic field has no mass, gravity cannot effect it.

Answer 4

i think gravity bends magnetic field as the flux is much greater near the equator than at the poles (gravity is slightly greater at equator) more over magnetic moment of particles depend on mass

Answer 5

each and all the forces act in comparable manners. Physicists considering the fact that Einstein have been attempting to describe a trouble-free relation deliver. Magnetic fields react in basic terms with different magnetic fields it is not appropriate what reasons them, so it is not magnets that act on one yet another it is the fields.

Answer 6

Yes

Answer 7

no, it won't bend a magnetic field

Answer 8

yes.