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Two things, greatly oversimplified: 1) all forms of energy (including mass) are sources for gravity. 2) Interaction with the Higgs gives rise to what we observe as mass of particles; without this interaction, we'd have massless particle, with essentially the same energy, but moving at the speed of light. The net gravitational effect would be very different from what we observe though...


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