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gravitational-red-shift
Light loses energy and shifts toward red when escaping a gravitational field, and gains energy shifting toward violet when falling into one.
1 chapter across 1 book
Redshift Rendezvous (1990)John E. Stith
Chapter 24
This chapter serves as an orientation guide for passengers aboard the spaceship Redshift, explaining how relativistic phenomena manifest at observable speeds due to the ship's unique conditions. It details various effects such as length contraction, Doppler shifts, gravitational red shifts, light bending, mass increase, time dilation, and sonic booms, emphasizing their basis in Einstein's theories of relativity and Newtonian mechanics. The chapter also advises passengers on how to interpret these phenomena and adjust their expectations and schedules accordingly.