Eli5: Can two photon particles hit each other? What happens if they did?

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Eli5: Can two photon particles hit each other? What happens if they did?

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Photon-photon annihilation is possible. It’s incredibly rare, and it results in two new photons with an equal energy to the initial photons.

The change it so weak that is has only been observed in very high energy photons.

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