Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The region, usually described as spherical, marking the outer boundary of a black hole, inside which the gravitational force is strong enough to prevent matter or radiation from escaping.
Wiktionary
- n. astrophysics The gravitational sphere of a black hole within which the escape velocity is greater than the speed of light, causing time to practically stop.
- n. A point of no return, by analogy to the astronomical usage
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Physics, Astron.) the boundary surface surrounding a black hole, from outside of which nothing inside can be observed, because nothing inside that surface, even light, can escape beyond it. See also black hole and escape velocity.
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zzt666 hi there Jan 27, 2010