event horizon
noun
: the surface of a black hole : the boundary of a black hole beyond which nothing can escape from within it
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Near a black hole's event horizon, however, the intense gravitational field prevents such annihilation.
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Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 15 May 2025
The film provides no answers but plunges nightmarishly onward into the questions, changing form at will as though, here at the event horizon of global meltdown, all the regular rules and codes have started to warp and bend.
—Jessica Kiang, Variety, 15 May 2025
Considered from far enough away, well beyond the event horizon—that pivotal region within which neither matter nor light can escape—a black hole can be modeled as a particlelike point with mass and spin, albeit one that generates gravitational rather than electromagnetic waves.
—Ramin Skibba, Scientific American, 13 May 2025
For example, the inside and outside of a black hole are decoupled by a boundary called the event horizon.
—Lyndie Chiou, Wired News, 20 Apr. 2025
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Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 15 May 2025
The film provides no answers but plunges nightmarishly onward into the questions, changing form at will as though, here at the event horizon of global meltdown, all the regular rules and codes have started to warp and bend.
—Jessica Kiang, Variety, 15 May 2025
Considered from far enough away, well beyond the event horizon—that pivotal region within which neither matter nor light can escape—a black hole can be modeled as a particlelike point with mass and spin, albeit one that generates gravitational rather than electromagnetic waves.
—Ramin Skibba, Scientific American, 13 May 2025
For example, the inside and outside of a black hole are decoupled by a boundary called the event horizon.
—Lyndie Chiou, Wired News, 20 Apr. 2025
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“Event horizon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/event%20horizon. Accessed 29 May. 2025.
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