by Shooting Star » September 7th, 2007, 8:33 pm
Light has energy, which is equivalent to mass, and so it has a gravity. A volume of space which has energy, light or otherwise, will have a gravitational effect on other objects. The rest mass of a photon is zero, but a photon of energy E has a mass of E/c^2.
The contribution of light in calculating the mass density of the Universe, as far as I know, is too low compared to the visible baryonic matter, and the invisible dark matter. And now, it seems that dark energy contributes hugely to the mass density of the Universe.