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Name: bryan d spray
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I would like to know a bit about Black Holes. Is it true that most of the electromagnetic spectrum can't escape the gravitational pull but radio waves can? If it isn't true then what is the story?

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I hadn't heard that, but I can imagine there might be some truth to it: if a radio wave had a wavelength long enough, it really wouldn't make sense to say whether it was "inside" the black hole or "outside" of it. I guess the same would hold for any other particle with very low energy. Good question.

A Smith


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