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Black Holes and the Schwarzschild 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 a black hole
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The event horizon is the boundary in spacetime beyond which the gravitational pull of a black hole is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape.

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