
Priya Natarajan on Black Holes and Mapping the Universe
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What Is the Event Horizon of a Black Hole?
The event horizon is the boundary that defines the region of space where anything inside a black hole cannot get out. It's ah, if you think of a black hole like a beech ball, the event horizon would be like the rubber the surface of the beach ball. But if there was going to be causation, then there had to be a way in which the black hole could impact very large distances from the centre of the galaxy. And up to then, all we had all been preoccupied with was how to feed black holes and grow them.
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