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Meanings of event horizon in English

Russian
сфера шварцшильда
Portuguese
horizonte de eventos
Spanish
horizonte de sucesos
Catalan
horitzó d'esdeveniments
Wikidata

The point of no return; boundary of a region of spacetime from which one cannot escape once entered.

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сфера шварцшильда
Usage of event horizon in English
1
Arguably they still exist in a sense, smeared around its event horizon.
Surface detail
2
The outer boundary of a black hole is called the event horizon.
A briefer history of time
3
You wouldn't necessarily know you had even crossed the event horizon.
The Science of Battlestar Galactica
4
You can cross that event horizon and you might not even feel it.
Wired
5
As before, the dying mass of broken stars fell into the event horizon.
The evolutionary void
6
Once it crosses the event horizon, the material is gone.
Wired
7
Faced with a limiting event horizon, Austria imploded like a black hole, unto itself.
Terrorists and Freedom Fighters
8
Jean Baudrillard wrote at the event horizon where postmodern theory and science-fiction become indistinguishable.
The Irish Times
9
The event horizon expanded out to thirty-eight metres and vanished, revealing the starship's hull.
The Naked God
10
Inside the so-called event horizon, even light is trapped by a huge gravitational pull.
BBC
11
However, a naked singularity does not have an event horizon.
The Science of Battlestar Galactica
12
Her eyes were the absorptive black of an event horizon.
The evolutionary void
13
Though seen with the eyes of the dark side itself, Palpatine was an event horizon.
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
14
That extensive event horizon would cast a dark shadow on the galactic dust behind it.
Wired
15
However, the gravity it generated wasn't strong enough to produce a singularity with an event horizon.
The Neutronium Alchemist
16
Once it's past the event horizon, nothing, but there are things sort of at the edge?
Wired