How do blackholes attract light when light is massless.

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How do blackholes attract light when light is massless.

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Black holes attract the spacetime light’s travelling in, not light itself. As far as the light particle itself is concerned, it’s travelling in a straight line through space, and that’s all that counts. 

The same effect can be measured on Earth by GPS satellites. Their clock ticks ever so slightly faster than on the surface. 

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