Submitted by ThePropagandaTower t3_10her99 in space
citybadger t1_j59r94t wrote
Reply to comment by bgplsa in The critical atom (thought experiment) by ThePropagandaTower
Light climbing out a gravity well loses energy. Unlike a object with mass, it doesn’t slow down as it loses energy, because it’s light - it can’t slow down. So it instead gets lower in frequency - “red-shifted”. Gamma rays become X-rays, which become ultraviolet light, which become blue visible light, which become red visible light, then infrared, microwave, and radio. Visible light climbing out of ordinary neutron star will be red shifted. Some of the red light will be invisible because it shifted into infrared.
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