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In a black hole, since light cannot escape are the photons slowed down or changed in direction?
Roy_06 said:So using e=mc^2 is the c based on the local speed of light? If something had a certain mass and hypothetically was right next to a black hole, would the energy of that object be 0 if the speed of light in that area was 0?
Roy_06 said:Hopefully you all can understand how I could get confused about a topic such as this.
Question 1.
If I was observing the speed of light at the event horizon of a black hole, and wasn't moving myself,
if the light was not moving to an outside observer (wasn't escaping the black hole), it just seems hard for me to imagine that I would view the light as moving at all - either away from the black hole or towards it or whatever the theory is, without time changing for me.
Edit: I guess the space-TIME is changed by the gravity not just space. However 0 x infinity is still 0 for the speed of light.
Question 2.
If a light bulb was turned on (a very very bright one), and I was one light-year away when the light was first turned on, and was moving away from the light bulb at the speed of light, would I see the light from the lightbulb in exactly one year (according to my clock).
Roy_06 said:In a black hole, since light cannot escape are the photons slowed down or changed in direction?
Roy_06 said:Scenario 2
If I was hypothetically traveling at the speed of light -1, and was 1 light-year away from the light bulb moving away from the light bulb, when the light reached me would it appear to be moving beside me at the speed of light according to my clocks and rulers.
A black hole is a region in space where the gravitational pull is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape from it. It is created when a massive star dies and its core collapses under its own gravity.
Black hole photons are photons (particles of light) that are emitted from the area around a black hole. They can provide valuable information about the properties and behavior of black holes.
Scientists study black hole photons using various techniques, such as analyzing the light emitted from the accretion disk (the disk of material surrounding a black hole) or observing the bending of light around a black hole.
Black hole photons can help scientists explore the mysteries of black hole formation, the behavior of matter in extreme gravitational fields, and the nature of space and time near a black hole.
No, black hole photons cannot escape from a black hole. Once they cross the event horizon (the point of no return), they are pulled into the black hole and cannot be detected by outside observers.