Photon energy is the energy carried by a single photon, which is a fundamental particle representing a quantum of light or electromagnetic radiation. The energy of a photon is directly related to its frequency and inversely related to its wavelength.
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The energy carried by one photon is proportional to its frequency , with proportionality constant the Planck constant . The equivalent forms use angular frequency and vacuum wavelength . Different observers can measure different photon energies because they measure different frequencies; the photon remains massless. In signature , an observer with four-velocity measures , where is the photon's four-momentum and .