What would the properties of an infinitely long wavelength of light be? And what about a wavelength of light that is infinitely short? What would that look like?

edit: light as in electromagnetic waves, not visible light. Sorry if it was not very clear

  • remon@ani.social
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    3 days ago

    The idea that a and very small wavelength would cause a black hole doesn’t really make sense to me since I thought a black hole requires mass.

    It’s mass OR energy.

    Light, even though massless will still bend (and be affected by distorted) spacetime because it has energy in form of momentum. (See: gravitational lensing).

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      2 days ago

      It is affected by gravity. But does it have gravitational pull? The thing about black holes is that they have a lot gravitational pull.

      I’m asking because I honestly don’t know.

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        1 day ago

        They do indeed. It’s totally minuscule of course.

        Everything that has energy deforms spacetime and spacetime affects how anything with energy moves.