Star Trouble

Classical Mechanics Level 1

According to Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, we cannot observe stars which have a lot of mass on a telescope because:

The light produced by them are in a non-visible spectrum. Large massed stars are very far way for us to see. The solar flares created by these stars block the view of the telescope. The strong gravity of the star bends light around it.

Sagnik Bhattacharya by Sagnik Bhattacharya , 21, India

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4 solutions

Siddharth Singh
Dec 5, 2014

Since the gravity will bend the light from its straight path and thus the telescope will not be able to collect the light.

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Pepe Felipe Serna
Apr 27, 2018

Because of the duality wave-particle and the curved spaced concept relativity introduces, a huge star would curve the space around itself significantly, changing the wavelenght of the light it produces, because of the curved space, which is needed by an electromagnetic wave to travel.

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Nikhil Rodds
Jan 12, 2017

Divergent Light from background of star makes turn around due large mass. Therefore light from background of star seen through telescope. So huge mass can't obverse...

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Kawsar Ahmed
Dec 27, 2014

Since the gravity hold the light ,so light can not travel straight to us.

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