• Question: Is light affected by gravity?

    Asked by anon-182214 on 22 Jun 2018.
    • Photo: Laurent Dupays

      Laurent Dupays answered on 22 Jun 2018:

      Yes it is even if it has no mass.
      However, you should better ask a theoretical physicist if you want to know why 🙂

    • Photo: Ashley Akbari

      Ashley Akbari answered on 24 Jun 2018:

      This is something i am really curious on but do not have any experience of – definitely one for a physicist.

    • Photo: Daniel Rhodes

      Daniel Rhodes answered on 26 Jun 2018:

      Yes it is – gravity is caused by distortions in spacetime (from Einstein and his general theory of relativity), everything traveling along this area of spacetime will bend with it, including light. This is a very incomplete picture of how this happens, but it’s about as much of it as I understand.

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