Thursday, 8 June 2017

Photons straight into black hole


What happens to a photon shot straight into a black hole? Does it gain infinite momentum before it crosses the horizon? If it has a finite momentum going in, then it would seem that a photon of the same momentum could escape the BH by time reversal.


Does the photon enter the BH at the speed of light as we perceive it from the outside? Or does time dilation take place as the photon gains energy?


Does the photon add to the mass of the black hole an amount of mass m = e/c^2, where e is photon energy? If so, is it the energy the photon had at the beginning, or the energy the blue shifted photon has as it crosses the horizon?





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