please excuse my grammer if it becomes crappy, but i have been thinking about the universe and its life span and stuff, and it got me thinking about black holes and how they have so much gravity they can suck anything it, even light, and since light is a form of eneergy, i was wondering if when light is sucked into a black hole, will it be able to be condensed enough to be formed into matter, or am i just way off base in this?
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In modern physics the mass of an object is really indistinguishable from its energy, since both are equivalent and related by Einstein's most famous equation E = mc^2, and often called mass-energy The mass-energy of a baseball, say, includes the rest mass of its constituent protons, neutrons and electrons and also the binding energy of the nuclei and atoms and any kinetic energy it has.
We have, even in principle, no way of knowing anything about what is inside a black hole, we can only determine its total mass-energy. Whether that is composed of classical mass or of energy, we will never know. Reply from hans krimm of ask an astrophysicist