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Loading contentThe stretching of light to longer wavelengths as it climbs out of a gravitational well, a prediction of general relativity. It is extreme near a black hole's event horizon, where light is redshifted without limit, and has been measured for the Sun, for white dwarfs, and even for atomic clocks at different heights on Earth.
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