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Where photons orbit a black hole is called a Photon Sphere. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon_sphere https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon_sphere It's a
by zeroer 10y ago
Where photons orbit a black hole is called a Photon Sphere.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon_sphere https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon_sphere
It's at 1.5 times the radius of the event horizon for a non-charged, non-rotating black hole. But it's more of a theoretical than practical construct. You wouldn't expect to actually find any photons there because the orbit is unstable and any deviance from a perfect orbit would accumulate exponentially.