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An event horizon is a type of boundary such that any information past this boundary is inaccessible to the observer it is defined for. Common examples are the Schwarzschild radius of a black hole (which is defined commonly for all observers outside this radius) and the cosmological event horizon (which is defined as a radius from an observer)

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Would something falling into a black hole appear to be flattened to an outside observer?

It is true that if you fall into a black hole an outside observer would never see you cross the horizon. It is also true that, according to a stationary observer just outside the event horizon, you wo …
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