35 questions linked to/from Does a photon exert a gravitational pull?
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### How does gravity effects both time and light if they have no mass [duplicate]

I've been reading about how black holes can effect both time and light with gravity. So I was wondering, doesn't something have to have mass to be effected by gravity? And if so, does this mean both ...
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### Can electromagnetic radiation (i.e. photons) produce gravity? [duplicate]

I don't want to play with physical laws in a frivolous way. Assuming that the nature of matter and energy is the same, can a high density of highly energetic photons produce a gravity force? We do ...
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### What is the cause the light is affected by gravity? [duplicate]

I know that photons have no mass and that a photons exist only moving at the speed of light. So what is the cause that a massive astronomical object can bend a ray of light? I have two thoughts, but I ...
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### Does non-matter energy curve spacetime? [duplicate]

I know that matter (mass) curves spacetime, but do other forms of energy do the same? I.e. is matter the only form of energy that curves spacetime?
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### Gravity will bend light. But will bent/curved light create gravity? [duplicate]

The first bit is well documented. Einstein (and others) supposed that gravity could bend light. We first observed it around the sun at total solar eclipse, and now it is a tool for astronomers and ...
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### Does light or waves have any kind of mass? [duplicate]

Just like the previous question, Even I have been studying Hawking's A Brief History Of Time and even I was thinking of Einstein's General Relativity. But I was unable to accept his view of GRAVITY. ...
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### Does light have a gravitational pull? [duplicate]

I understand that everything with mass does have a gravitational pull no matter how small the object, which means even a grain of sand has a gravitational pull. But light is something that exists, ...
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### Do photons apply gravity? [duplicate]

Matter curves space time . as its mass grows the curvature of space-time grows. This curvature procedure of space time is to my opinion what slows down and prevents from mass to reach the speed of ...
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### Photons and gravity [duplicate]

A very powerful laser pointing to the empty space next to small object in space. The photons in the laser beam does not hit the object. Will the small object be gravitationally affected by that laser ...
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### Does energy produce a gravitational force [duplicate]

$E=mc^2$. From this, I would assume that any form of energy (not just rest-mass energy, but kinetic energy as well) would produce a gravitational force. Am I being too naive in my application of ...
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### Effect of a photon on curvature of spacetime [duplicate]

Since light has no rest mass, is it reasonable to assume that the curvature of spacetime is not affected (distorted) by a single photon? Sure, a photon is attracted due to gravity. But could be ...
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### Do photons cause gravity or not? [duplicate]

I have come across a Wikipedia page https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity On gravity and it claims that since mass and energy are related even pure forms of energy have gravitational attraction. I ...
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### Do two beams of light attract each other in general theory of relativity?

In general relativity, light is subject to gravitational pull. Does light generate gravitational pull, and do two beams of light attract each other?