event horizon
nounDefinition of event horizon
: the surface of a black hole : the boundary of a black hole beyond which nothing can escape from within it
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That shadow is the event horizon, the stark demarcation between the outside and anything with the misfortune to have fallen inside. — Quanta Magazine, "What the Sight of a Black Hole Means to a Black Hole Physicist," 10 Apr. 2019 Two of my favorites are Richard Dawkins and Stephen Hawking, one leading us into the inner sanctum of our selfish genes and the other to the very precipice of the event horizon. — New York Times, "What Does the Author of ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’ Think You Should Read?," 11 July 2019 Just a vast perfect nothingness known as the event horizon. — Steff Yotka, Vogue, "Just Wait Until Fashion Designers Get Their Hands on This Black Hole Picture," 10 Apr. 2019 Hawking suggested that perhaps the event horizon is not some definite point of no return beyond which nothing could escape a black hole. — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, "Stephen Hawking’s final paper published, tackles famous paradox," 11 Oct. 2018 The event horizon is the edge of the black hole, the boundary beyond which nothing can escape, even light. — Brian Resnick, Vox, "How a star orbiting a supermassive black hole proves Einstein is (still) right about gravity," 26 July 2018 The shoe-shop event horizon Lobb, and firms like it, make shoes using patterns called lasts. — The Economist, "Shoemakers bring bespoke footwear to the high street," 22 May 2018 Two of my favorites are Richard Dawkins and Stephen Hawking, one leading us into the inner sanctum of our selfish genes and the other to the very precipice of the event horizon. — New York Times, "What Does the Author of ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’ Think You Should Read?," 11 July 2019 The interior of a black hole might be a hologram that projects from information encoded on the event horizon. — Natalie Wolchover, WIRED, "A ‘Sonic Black Hole' Could Help Solve a Cosmic Paradox," 30 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'event horizon.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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