# Is the curvature of space around mass independent of gravity?

Is the curvature of space caused by the local density of the energy in that area?Could gravity be a separate phenomenon only arising from the curvature of space? For instance if the density of energy in a particular area cause that area of space to ”curve” but the effect that we understand as gravity, (causing anything with mass to be attracted to each other) is only arising as a consequence of that space being curved. I guess it seems to me that things other than mass can cause the curvature of space (electromagnetic fields, an enormously high density of photons in a small area or at least I think so, but I'm not sure about the photons, and if a black hole rotating causes frame dragging (which I'm assuming means the surrounding physical metric of space is probably some mechanism, or thought experiment where you could ball up space tight enough to become a black hole even without any matter in it. I guess it's another question I Could ask.

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As understood by Einstein's general theory of relativity completed in 1915-16, gravity is indeed a manifestation of (nothing else than) the curvature of space and I have some doubts about your implicit claim that you have made this discovery "independently" of Einstein. According to the precise equations of general relativity, the so-called Einstein's equations $$G_{\mu\nu} = \frac{8\pi G}{c^2} T_{\mu\nu},$$ what influences the curvature of spacetime is the stress-energy tensor that knows about the density of energy and momentum and the flux of energy and momentum. Terms like "flux of momentum" may sound obscure but they are described by well-defined mathematical formulae. In particular, "flux of momentum" is nothing else than the component of pressure. So pressure also influences the curvature of spacetime – and therefore the gravitational field and the behavior of objects in this field – according to general relativity.