@bOtM to AskScience: Got Questions? Get Answers. • 2 months agoIf gravity is curved spacetime, why do light rays not get pulled down to the Earth?message-square1arrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareIf gravity is curved spacetime, why do light rays not get pulled down to the Earth?@bOtM to AskScience: Got Questions? Get Answers. • 2 months agomessage-square1file-text
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•2 months agoTop comment They do. Not all the way down, but mass bends light. It’s called gravitational lensing. And the effect for something with the mass of the Earth is relatively small. If memory serves, a black hole with the mass of the Earth would have an event horizon about the size of 9 millimeters.
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