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Why do accelerating bodies have an event horizon?

I read in a book named - "Three Roads to Quantum Gravity" written by Lee Smolin that any accelerating body always have some hidden region of space-time from which light is never able to catch up with them, thus they develop some sort of an Event Horizon for themselves.Since Since any object possessing mass can never reach the speed of light, Howhow is it possible for an accelerating object to never catch up with a ray of light?

Why accelerating bodies have an event horizon?

I read in a book named - "Three Roads to Quantum Gravity" written by Lee Smolin that any accelerating body always have some hidden region of space-time from which light is never able to catch up with them, thus they develop some sort of an Event Horizon for themselves.Since any object possessing mass can never reach the speed of light, How is it possible for an accelerating object to never catch up with a ray of light?

Why do accelerating bodies have an event horizon?

I read in a book named "Three Roads to Quantum Gravity" written by Lee Smolin that any accelerating body always have some hidden region of space-time from which light is never able to catch up with them, thus they develop some sort of an Event Horizon for themselves. Since any object possessing mass can never reach the speed of light, how is it possible for an accelerating object to never catch up with a ray of light?

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Why accelerating bodies have an event horizon?

I read in a book named - "Three Roads to Quantum Gravity" written by Lee Smolin that any accelerating body always have some hidden region of space-time from which light is never able to catch up with them, thus they develop some sort of an Event Horizon for themselves.Since any object possessing mass can never reach the speed of light, How is it possible for an accelerating object to never catch up with a ray of light?