In astrophysics, an event horizon is a boundary beyond which events cannot affect an observer. Wolfgang Rindler coined the term in the 1950s.[1]
In 1784, John Michell proposed that gravity can be strong enough in the vicinity of massive compact objects that even light cannot escape.[2] At that time, the Newtonian theory of gravitation and the so-called corpuscular theory of light were dominant.
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