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  2. Event horizon - Wikipedia

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    A cosmic event horizon is a real event horizon because it affects all kinds of signals, including gravitational waves, which travel at the speed of light. More specific horizon types include the related but distinct absolute and apparent horizons found around a black hole.

  3. Schwarzschild radius - Wikipedia

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    The Schwarzschild radius or the gravitational radius is a physical parameter in the Schwarzschild solution to Einstein's field equations that corresponds to the radius defining the event horizon of a Schwarzschild black hole. It is a characteristic radius associated with any quantity of mass.

  4. Kerr metric - Wikipedia

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    The Kerr metric or Kerr geometry describes the geometry of empty spacetime around a rotating uncharged axially symmetric black hole with a quasispherical event horizon.The Kerr metric is an exact solution of the Einstein field equations of general relativity; these equations are highly non-linear, which makes exact solutions very difficult to find.

  5. Black hole thermodynamics - Wikipedia

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    In physics, black hole thermodynamics [1] is the area of study that seeks to reconcile the laws of thermodynamics with the existence of black hole event horizons.As the study of the statistical mechanics of black-body radiation led to the development of the theory of quantum mechanics, the effort to understand the statistical mechanics of black holes has had a deep impact upon the ...

  6. Reissner–Nordström metric - Wikipedia

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    Although charged black holes with r Q ≪ r s are similar to the Schwarzschild black hole, they have two horizons: the event horizon and an internal Cauchy horizon. [8] As with the Schwarzschild metric, the event horizons for the spacetime are located where the metric component diverges; that is, where + = =

  7. Kruskal–Szekeres coordinates - Wikipedia

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    The black hole event horizon bordering exterior region I would coincide with a Schwarzschild t-coordinate of + while the white hole event horizon bordering this region would coincide with a Schwarzschild t-coordinate of , reflecting the fact that in Schwarzschild coordinates an infalling particle takes an infinite coordinate time to reach the ...

  8. Rotating black hole - Wikipedia

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    [7] [8] This can happen through the Penrose process inside the black hole's ergosphere, in the volume outside its event horizon. [9] In some cases of energy extraction, a rotating black hole may gradually reduce to a Schwarzschild black hole, the minimum configuration from which no further energy can be extracted, although the Kerr black hole's ...

  9. Schwarzschild geodesics - Wikipedia

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    Geodesic of a photon emitted from a light source located on the event horizon of a black hole and back to it, with an impact parameter > =. Geodesic of a photon emitted from a light source located on the event horizon of a black hole, with an impact parameter b = b c r i t = 3 3 2 r s {\displaystyle b=b_{crit}={\frac {3{\sqrt {3}}}{2}}r_{s ...