This question has been bothering me a bit. I know that neutrinos have super smal

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This question has been bothering me a bit. I know that neutrinos have super small mass and they interact via the weak force. Since they have a non-zero mass, they should be affected by black holes and their paths should be affected by them.

Suppose we have a neutrino of any flavor traveling directly to the coordinates of the singularity of a black hole... or its cross sectional impact includes the black hole coordinate. Basically, its going straight towards a black hole...

Given that a black hole has so much mass and is so dense, it surely must be able to interact with a neutrino, right?

What are the conditions for neutrinos to get trapped in a black hole, or not?

Explanation / Answer

Yes. Not even the light, which has no mass, can escape when it goes too near to a black hole, let alone the (tinily) massive neutrinos. Also neutrinos interact via the weak force, as you correctly state, but they also interact via gravitational interaction (even if they were massless they would, obviously when speaking about black holes one has to use General Relativity as opposed to Newtonian Mechanics).

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