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← ScienceWhich consequence occurs when intense gravitational time dilation nears a black hole's event horizon?
A)Observed light redshifts significantly✓
B)Spacetime remains uniformly flat
C)Falling objects gain kinetic energy
D)Quantum entanglement instantaneously breaks
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Near a black hole, extreme gravity causes dramatic time dilation; space-time curvature becomes immense, causing the gravitational redshift of outgoing photons. Because of the Einstein equivalence principle, light loses energy escaping this intense gravitational field; therefore emitted wavelengths observed become stretched, rather than blue-shifted or unaffected.
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