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event horizon

boundary of a region of spacetime from which one cannot escape once entered
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Summary

event horizon is a hypersurface[1]. It draws 12,626 Wikipedia views per month (hypersurface category, ranking #1 of 1).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: horizon[3]
  • Said to be the same as: Schwarzschild radius[4]
  • Stack Exchange tag: https://physics.stackexchange.com/tags/event-horizon[5], https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/tags/event-horizon[6]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[7]
  • P14541: 2bbUbd[8]

Why It Matters

event horizon has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[9] It is known by 53 alternative names across languages and contexts.[10]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [9] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [10] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 21d ago · Printstream · 2026-09-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ar', 'ast', 'az', 'azb', 'be', 'bg', 'bn', 'br', 'bs', 'ca', 'cs', 'cv',
    Gnd id → 4521706-3
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/56529|batch #56529]]: Import GNDs from dewiki"
  2. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 2bbUbd
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
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