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According to the theory of general relativity, large masses such as a black hole bend and warp space-time in the surrounding area meaning that a straight line (the path a photon or light travels along) would appear bent to an outside observer.

There is no force acting upon the photon as they have neither mass nor charge they are just traveling through a curved area of space-time.

This is often called gravitational lensing and is associated with the phenomena called Einstein rings.

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