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Event horizon
The boundary around a black hole beyond which nothing can escape.
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Black holes are defined by their event horizons, not by the mass crushed to a point.
Supermassive black holes likely formed directly from primordial material shortly after the Big Bang.
The information paradox challenges the idea that information is lost in black holes, suggesting unitarity must be preserved.
Wormholes might theoretically connect particles via quantum entanglement, bypassing the event horizon.
LIGO's detection of gravitational waves marked a monumental achievement in precision cosmology.
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