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The closer you get to the centre of a black hole, the stronger it pulls, and the faster you need to move to escape that pull.
At some point the speed you need to escape its pull becomes greater than the speed of light. Because speed of light is the fastest speed anything can move with, nothing can escape it. This point is what’s called event horizon.
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