[QUOTE="I_am_chicken"]I never understood this... If photons are massless, how can they be absorbed by blackholes, not matter how strong their gravitanional force is? MrGeezer
Because mass warps space.
Think of space as a piece of nylon and mass as a ball on the nylon. The weight of the ball will cause a "depression" in "space". Anything traveling through this "space" will have its motion altered. Likewise, black holes cause infinite curvature of space. If light travels through space that is too close to the black hole, it gets "sucked in" too.
That sounds pretty correct but if they had infinite curvature they would warp all of space time down to a small ball. Yes they bend space time but not infinitely.
I also believe that E=mc^2 would also sort of explain it
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