If photons have no mass, how are black-holes able to suck in light?

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If photons have no mass, how are black-holes able to suck in light?

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Photons have no *rest* mass. If you could get them to stand still, they’d literally weigh nothing.

But they do have energy, because they’re moving, and mass and energy are related and in certain ways equivalent. A moving photon has mass.

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