event horizon
Noun
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Noun
event horizon (plural event horizons)
- (astrophysics) The gravitational sphere of a black hole within which the escape velocity is greater than the speed of light.
- (by extension) A point of no return.
- absolute horizon
- apparent horizon
- Cauchy horizon
- dynamical horizon
- isolated horizon
- Killing horizon
- particle horizon
- French: horizon des événements
- German: Ereignishorizont
- Italian: orizzonte degli eventi
- Portuguese: horizonte de eventos
- Russian: горизо́нт собы́тий
- Spanish: horizonte de sucesos, horizonte de eventos
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