What is event horizon?

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Lalit Bhandari
9 years ago
Hi Uffair, In general relativity, an event horizon is a boundary in spacetime beyond which events cannot affect an outside observer. In layman's terms, it is defined as the shell of "points of no return", I.e., the points at which the gravitational pull becomes so great as to make escape impossible

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