Event horizon
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event-horizon-176-9574580
title:
Event horizon
text:
In astrophysics, an event horizon is a boundary beyond which events cannot affect an observer. Wolfgang Rindler coined the term in the 1950s. In 1784, John Michell proposed that gravity can be strong enough in the vicinity of massive compact objects that even light cannot escape. At that time, the Newtonian theory of gravitation and the so-called corpuscular theory of light were dominant. In these theories, if the escape velocity of the gravitational influence of a massive object exceeds the spe
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Region in spacetime from which nothing can escape
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_horizon
date created:
2001-09-26T12:42:45Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T17:14:02Z
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