Name: Byran D Spray
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Question:
I would like to know a bit about Black Holes. Is it true that most of the
electromagnetic spectrum cannot escape the gravitational pull but radio
waves can?
Replies:
I had not heard that, but I can imagine there might be some truth to it: if
a radio wave had a wavelength long enough, it really would not 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. Although
actually, I think the way it would work is that the radio wave would still
be strongly affected by the black hole's gravity.
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