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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. 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

  1. 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.
  2. n. A point of no return, by analogy to the astronomical usage

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. 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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  • dailyword Some people on fanfiction.net rants complain that the site is reaching this because they are putting in a lot of new features, Jul 12, 2012

  • zzt666 hi there Jan 27, 2010

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