Which one of the following statements about black holes is NOT true? A. If you w

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Which one of the following statements about black holes is NOT true? A. If you watch someone else fall into a black hole, you will never see him or her cross the event horizon. 18) However, he or she will fade from view as the light he or she emits (or reflects) becomes more and more redshifted. B. If we watch a clock fall toward a black hole, we will see it tick slower and slower as it falls nearer to the black hole. C. A black hole is truly a hole in spacetime, through which we could leave the observable universe. D. If the Sun magically disappeared and was replaced by a black hole of the same mass, Earth would soon be sucked into the black hole. E. If you fell into a black hole, you would experience time to be running normally as you plunged rapidly across the event horizon. Cedar Valley College Since light has no mass, it should not be affected by gravity (since gravity only affects those objects which have mass). Why then, do astronomers say light is sucked into a black hole? 19) Light is confined to traveling along the curvature of space-time. Since gravity distorts the curvature of space- time (extremely so in the case of a black hole) and light travels along the curvature of space-time, light has no choice but to follow the distorted space-time paths -right into the black hole. A. B. Light has mass (although a very tiny amount) so it is affected by gravity C. The gravity of the black hole reaches out and sucks in the light beams, causing them to fall into the black hole D. The light really doesn't go into the black hole since it is traveling so fast. It bounces off the hole's surface, away from us, so that is why we can no longer see it.

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(D)Is the Sun magically disappered and was replaced by a blackhole of the same mass, Earth would soon be sucked into the balck hole.

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