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Event Horizon

United States · Science / Astronomy. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1958

David Finkelstein1958

Science / Astronomy

David Finkelstein identifies the Schwarzschild surface r = 2m [in geometrized units, i.e. 2Gm/c2, where r is the radius of the surface and m is the mass of the black hole] as an event horizon

Names involved

David Finkelstein

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