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Which outcome occurs when a high-energy photon approaches a black hole's event horizon?

A)Gravitational redshift becomes infinitely large
B)Photon frequency increases proportionally with distance
C)Photon trajectory remains completely unaffected
D)Wavelength exhibits a blueshift effect

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The gravitational redshift becomes infinite due to the equivalence principle causing photons to expend energy climbing out of the intense gravitational field; because of this energy loss via gravitational redshift, the photon cannot escape, therefore the frequency approaches zero, rather than increasing or remaining unaffected by it.

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