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Black Holes and the Kerr Metric
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What is the event horizon of a black hole?
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The boundary beyond which nothing, not even light, can escape from the black hole's gravitational pull
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The event horizon is the boundary in spacetime beyond which events cannot affect an observer outside the black hole. It is a point of no return for objects falling into the black hole.