Name: ham
Status: N/a
Age: N/A
Location: N/A
Country: N/A
Date: Around 1993
Question:
What happens to light (photons) when it enters a black hole? Is
light (photons) consumed?
Replies:
Nobody really knows what happens to it, but it never comes back
out, and the black hole's mass increases by E/(c^2), where E is the energy of
the photon.
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