| Schwarzschild Radius,
Event Horizon, and Singularity
The escape speed from the
Schwarzschild Radius is equal to the speed of light, c. Inside the Schwarzschild radius, the escape is even higher; it is
larger than c. Because the speed of light is the
fastest any massive object can move, this means nothing can escape from inside
the Schwarzschild Radius not even light, hence
the name.
The Schwarzschild Radius then defines the
Event Horizon; events which take place within the Event Horizon cannot leak out and affect the rest of the Universe!
At the Event Horizon, we find that
space and time change
character, and matter
once inside the Event Horizon inexorably
flows to the center of the black hole getting compressed to infinite density in
the Singularity of the black hole, the central point
of the black hole!!
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