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Electromagnetic waves can travel through a vacuum. Space doe…
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Electromagnetic waves can travel through a vacuum. Space doesn’t block the signal.
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Light, radio, X-rays—these are EM waves and don’t need a medium. In vacuum they travel at c ≈ 3×10⁸ m/s.
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