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Index Key: PHY079
Author: ham
Subject: Light in a black hole?
Text: What happens to light (photons) when it enters a black hole? Is
light (photons) consumed?
Response #: 1 of 1
Author: mooney
Text: 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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