You already learnt in your high school science classes that the mass of an object has no influence in how fast it falls on a gravitational field (remember Galileo's thought experiment where he drops two objects of different masses at the same time, and both arrive at the ground at the same time).
It's the mass of the black hole that determines the intensity of the gravitational field, and not the mass of the object.
And before you reply "You're such an idiot, because Newton's law of gravitation says F=G*M1*M2/R^2.",
let me counter-reply that you should already know also Newton's second law of motion that says that "F=M1*a" so the ACCELERATION felt by a body in a gravitational field does NOT depend on its mass.
You don't need a PhD in physics to know these things. Your science classes in high school are enough.
It's the mass of the black hole that determines the intensity of the gravitational field, and not the mass of the object.
And before you reply "You're such an idiot, because Newton's law of gravitation says F=G*M1*M2/R^2.",
let me counter-reply that you should already know also Newton's second law of motion that says that "F=M1*a" so the ACCELERATION felt by a body in a gravitational field does NOT depend on its mass.
You don't need a PhD in physics to know these things. Your science classes in high school are enough.
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A black hole warps space due to the mass that the black hole contains, it does not matter if light has no mass , light is attracted to the black hole because of the warped space that the black hole causes.
Light can not escape the black holes gravitational pull and it does not matter if particles have no mass.
Imagine a trampoline and the fabric of the trampoline represents the fabric of space, now imagine a bowling ball on the trampoline, the bowling ball represents the mass of the black hole, so the bowling ball will bend the fabric of the trampoline, same with a black hole, the reason light is attracted to a black hole is because of that warping of space that the black hole causes.
Light can not escape the black holes gravitational pull and it does not matter if particles have no mass.
Imagine a trampoline and the fabric of the trampoline represents the fabric of space, now imagine a bowling ball on the trampoline, the bowling ball represents the mass of the black hole, so the bowling ball will bend the fabric of the trampoline, same with a black hole, the reason light is attracted to a black hole is because of that warping of space that the black hole causes.
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The mass of the black hole curves the local space-time. Light travels through space-time. The path light naturally follows steers it toward the black hole.
In fact, as far as we can tell, this is how gravity works for all objects ie the masses don't actually attract but they bend space-time, which alters the path they follow. This had led to gravity being called a fictitious force, although many suspect that eventually there will be a particle based explanation for gravity.
In fact, as far as we can tell, this is how gravity works for all objects ie the masses don't actually attract but they bend space-time, which alters the path they follow. This had led to gravity being called a fictitious force, although many suspect that eventually there will be a particle based explanation for gravity.