How do black holes “consume” light?

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How do black holes “consume” light?

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With Einstein’s understanding of gravity, mass curves spacetime rather than ‘attracting’ things. Near a black hole, the gravity well is strong enough that the curvature of spacetime only leads toward the black hole. Light is following a straight path through curved spacetime.

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