Does light bend because of black holes? Do they consume light as well?
Black holes are an interesting topic. They occur when a star enter its final stage of life and self-destructs. Black holes are so gravitationally powerful that they can absorb whole planets and sometimes even solar systems. They are so powerful that they just consume the light, and nothing can escape it. (unless there is a thing faster than light)
light bends due to gravity, from any surface, even the earth bends light. black holes do consume light that falls into them, it makes them bigger.
Light doesn't alter its speed or direction as it travels through the universe, but it appears to do so near objects with lots of gravitational pull like Black holes. What's actually being altered is time and space, not the speed and direction of light
For practical purposes, yes. The gravity of black holes distorts space-time around the black hole, and this distortion bends light, or more accurately causes a light beam to change its direction as it passes the black hole.
For all practical purposes, any body with a mass will lead to a change in the trajectory of the light as compared with the trajectory of the light in the same region of space, in the absence of the body. This is commonly known as gravitational light bending. The first example of light bending was observed in 1911, if I remember correctly, during a solar eclipse, shortly after the effect was predicted by Einstein. Another effect with the same cause is the gravitational lensing which can be seen in many Hubble photographs. So the answer is yes, black holes do bend light. And if the light passes close enough, it will fall in the black hole.
