Once inside the event horizon, all "events" (points in space-time) stop, and nothing (even light) can escape. The radius of the event horizon is called the Schwarzschild radius, named after astronomer Karl Schwarzschild, whose work led to the theory of black holes. Types of Black Holes ...
The area around the crushed star from which light cannot escape is called the event horizon. For the simplest black hole, the event horizon is a sphere with a radius called the Schwarzschild radius, named after the German physicist Karl Schwarzschild, who first calculated it. For a black hole...
Our current version of the Schwarzschild metric is [tex]d\tau^2=(1-r_s/r)dt^2-(1-r_s/r)^{-1}dr^2-r^2d\Omega^2[/tex] where c is set to 1, r is the scalar distance, [tex]r_s[/tex] is the 'event horizon' radius, and [tex]d\Omega^2=d\theta^2+sin^2\theta d\p...
He did such a good job that the event horizon of a black hole, the boundary beyond which nothing escapes, is known in fancy science circles as the “schwarzschild radius”. Fortunately, for reasonable situations (not-black-hole situations), you can calculate the time dilation ...
Using the Schwarzschild radius calculation, a black hole the size of Earth would have a radius of less than one inch, making it about as big as a ping pong ball. The Sun, on the other hand, would have a radius of just under two miles. ...
The radius of the event horizon is the Schwarzschild radius, which can be calculated as follows: 𝑟𝑠=2𝑔𝑀𝑐2 rs=2gMc2 (16) where g is Newton’s gravitational constant, M is the mass of the object and c is the speed of light. Inside the event horizon, the gravity force...