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  2. Event horizon - Wikipedia

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    The reachable Universe as a function of time and distance, in context of the expanding Universe.. In cosmology, the event horizon of the observable universe is the largest comoving distance from which light emitted now can ever reach the observer in the future.

  3. Cosmological horizon - Wikipedia

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    The particle horizon, also called the cosmological horizon, the comoving horizon, or the cosmic light horizon, is the maximum distance from which light from particles could have traveled to the observer in the age of the universe. It represents the boundary between the observable and the unobservable regions of the universe, so its distance at ...

  4. Particle horizon - Wikipedia

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    The particle horizon (also called the cosmological horizon, the comoving horizon (in Scott Dodelson's text), or the cosmic light horizon) is the maximum distance from which light from particles could have traveled to the observer in the age of the universe.

  5. Absolute horizon - Wikipedia

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    The definition of an absolute horizon is sometimes referred to as teleological, meaning that it cannot be known where the absolute horizon is without knowing the entire evolution of the universe, including the future. [4] This is both an advantage and a disadvantage.

  6. Horizon (general relativity) - Wikipedia

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    A horizon is a boundary in spacetime satisfying prescribed conditions. There are several types of horizons that play a role in Albert Einstein 's theory of general relativity : Absolute horizon , a boundary in spacetime in general relativity inside of which events cannot affect an external observer

  7. Horizon problem - Wikipedia

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    The horizon problem (also known as the homogeneity problem) is a cosmological fine-tuning problem within the Big Bang model of the universe. It arises due to the difficulty in explaining the observed homogeneity of causally disconnected regions of space in the absence of a mechanism that sets the same initial conditions everywhere.

  8. Comoving and proper distances - Wikipedia

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    In this case, for two events which are simultaneous according to the cosmological time coordinate, the value of the cosmological proper distance is not equal to the value of the proper length between these same events, [9] which would just be the distance along a straight line between the events in a Minkowski diagram (and a straight line is a ...

  9. Trapped surface - Wikipedia

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    Closed trapped surfaces are a concept used in black hole solutions of general relativity [1] which describe the inner region of an event horizon. Roger Penrose defined the notion of closed trapped surfaces in 1965. [2] A trapped surface is one where light is not moving away from the black hole.