English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /əˈvɛnt həˈɹaɪ.zən/, /-zɪn/, [əˈvɛɾ̃ həˈɹaɪ.zən], [əˈvɛn -], [-zɪn]
Noun
event horizon (plural event horizons)
- (astrophysics) The gravitational sphere of a black hole within which the escape velocity is greater than the speed of light.
- (astrophysics) The furthest distance in the past of the universe from which light signals from an event can reach an observer at later times.
- (figuratively, by extension) A point of no return.
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Translations
gravitational sphere within which light cannot escape
- Afrikaans: waarnemingshorison
- Albanian: horizont i ngjarjes m, horizont i ngjarjeve m
- Arabic: أُفُق اَلْحَدَث m (ʔufuq al-ḥadaṯ)
- Armenian: իրադարձությունների հորիզոն (iradarjutʻyunneri horizon)
- Asturian: horizonte de sucesos m
- Azerbaijani: hadisə üfüqü
- Basque: gertaeren muga
- Belarusian: гарызонт падзей m (haryzónt padzjej)
- Bengali: ঘটনা দিগন্ত (ghoṭona digonto)
- Bulgarian: хоризонт на събитията m (horizont na sǎbitijata)
- Burmese: ဖြစ်ရပ် မိုးကုတ်စက်ဝိုင်း (hpracrap mui:kutcak-wuing:)
- Catalan: horitzó d'esdeveniments m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 事界 (si6 gaai3)
- Mandarin: 事件視界 / 事件视界 (zh) (shìjiàn shìjiè), 事件穹界 (shìjiàn qióngjiè), 事界 (zh) (shìjiè)
- Czech: horizont událostí m
- Danish: begivenhedshorisont c
- Dutch: waarnemingshorizon (nl) m
- Esperanto: eventa horizonto
- Estonian: sündmuste horisont
- Faroese: hendingartrom f
- Finnish: tapahtumahorisontti (fi)
- French: horizon des événements (fr) m
- Georgian: მოვლენათა ჰორიზონტი (movlenata horizonṭi)
- German: Ereignishorizont (de) m
- Greek: ορίζοντας γεγονότων m (orízontas gegonóton)
- Hebrew: אופק אירועים
- Hindi: घटना क्षितिज m (ghaṭnā kṣitij)
- Hungarian: eseményhorizont (hu)
- Icelandic: sjónhvörf n pl, skynmörk n pl
- Indonesian: horizon peristiwa
- Interlingua: horizonte de eventos
- Irish: léaslíne theagmhais f
- Italian: orizzonte degli eventi m
- Japanese: 事象の地平面 (ja) (じしょうのちへいめん, jishō no chiheimen)
- Kazakh: оқиға көкжиегі (oqiğa kökjiegı)
- Korean: 사상(事象)의 지평선(地平線) (sasang-ui jipyeongseon)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: ئاسۆی ڕووداو (asoy rûdaw)
- Latin: horizon eventuum m
- Latvian: notikumu horizonts m
- Lithuanian: įvykių horizontas m
- Macedonian: хоризонт на настани (horizont na nastani)
- Malayalam: സംഭവചക്രവാളം (sambhavacakravāḷaṁ)
- Maltese: orizzont avveniment m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: hendelseshorisont m
- Nynorsk: hendingshorisont m, hendingsrand
- Norwegian Nynorsk: hendelseshorisont
- Persian: افق رویداد (fa) (ofoq-e ruydâd)
- Polish: horyzont zdarzeń (pl) m
- Portuguese: horizonte de eventos m
- Punjabi: ਇਵੈਂਟ ਹੌਰਿਜ਼ਨ (ivaiṇṭ haurizan)
- Romanian: orizontul evenimentelor, orizont de evenimente
- Russian: горизо́нт собы́тий (ru) m (gorizónt sobýtij), сфе́ра Шва́рцшильда f (sféra Švárcšilʹda)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: хоризонт догађаја
- Roman: horizont događaja
- Slovak: horizont udalostí
- Slovene: horizont dogodkov m, dogódkovno obzórje n
- Spanish: horizonte de sucesos m, horizonte de eventos m
- Swedish: händelsehorisont (sv) c
- Tamil: நிகழ்வெல்லை (nikaḻvellai)
- Thai: ขอบฟ้าเหตุการณ์ (kòp-fáa-hàyt-gaan)
- Turkish: olay ufku (tr)
- Ukrainian: горизонт подій (uk) (horyzont podij)
- Urdu: افق وقیعہ
- Uzbek: voqealar gorizonti
- Vietnamese: chân trời sự kiện (蹎𡗶事件)
- Welsh: gorwel digwyddiad m
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