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Tim Iafolla wrote:
> 
> Botch wrote:
> >
> > jimbo wrote:
> > >
> > > >There is evidence in astrophotoghpy that when light from a far star
> > > >passes by a nearer star it appears to bend (similar to refraction)
> > > >causing the image to appear to shift position. This suggests that light
> > > >(a photon energy-particle?) does have mass and is effected by gravity.
> > > >So if "light" does have mass then how can light travel at the speed of
> > > >light?
> > >
> 
> Light that looks like it's bending around a star is actually traveling
> in a straight line.  The gravity of the star bends space, and the light
> traveling in a straight line through curved space, from our vantage
> point, looks like it's traveling in a curve.  A black hole's gravity is
> so strong that it bends space completely back on itself.  The light
> still travels in a straight line, but in that closed geometry it never
> escapes to where we can see it.
The light is pulled by the gravitational forces of the black hole

Light is also pulled by any other objects, but to a point at which the
effect in not noticable.  You and I both pull light rays/particles, but
we cannot see the effect.  The gravitational force of a black hole being
so powerful that it warps space(maybe time too) is not valid for
explaining this property, cause the light does not travel in a straight
line.