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When Light Becomes Heavy Enough to Trap Itself Can light collapse into a black hole? In General Relativity, light is not weightless in the geometric sense. It has energy, it carries momentum, and energy curves Spacetime. A Vaidya-type collapse describes a mass that grows because radiation is falling inward.... The mathematics is the same brutal idea behind Einstein’s equation Gᵤᵥ = 8πTᵤᵥ If the stress-energy Tᵤᵥ is made from radiation, then light itself becomes a source of curvature. As more radiation falls inward, the mass aspect grows, the Spacetime fabric tightens, and a clean black horizon appears where escaping paths begin to fail. #GeneralRelativity #EinsteinEquations #BlackHole #Spacetime #Astrophysics #TheoreticalPhysics #Light #Mathematics #Scienceshow more

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