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Light is, sound is not.

Light is an actual, physical thing - a photon, or 'packet of light' - which, although is massless, has energy and momentum. These are the true factors which influence gravitational fields - energy and momentum - not mass. Mass can be equated into its energy form by using E=mc2 , thus proving it has the requirements for a gravitational pull.

Sound is a wave of pressure which travels through a medium. It is not a physical thing, it simply propagates through something as a vibration. Sound - the vibration itself - is not affected by gravity, but whatever it is travelling through will be, which can in turn pull the propagating sound waves towards the centre of gravity, and thus giving the illusion that the sound itself is affected by the gravitational pull.

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