While traveling the galaxy in a spacecraft,you and a colleague set out to investigate the 106M⨀ black hole at the center of our galaxy.She hops aboard an escape pod and drops into a circular orbit around the black hole,maintaining a distance of 1 AU,while you remain much farther away in the spacecraft.After doing some experiments to measure the strength of gravity,your colleague signals her results back to you using a green laser.What would you see? Hint: you will need to calculate the location of the event horizon.
A) Her signals are shifted only slightly toward the red because she is orbiting well outside the event horizon of the black hole.
B) You would see her signals shifted to a much redder wavelength because she is close to the event horizon.
C) You would see nothing,because your colleague has crossed the event horizon around the black hole.
D) You would see nothing,because no light can escape the gravitational pull of a black hole no matter how far she is from it.
E) You would see her signals shifted to a much bluer wavelength because black holes can make highly energetic light.
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