| What is the ‘event horizon’ as described by Stephen Hawking and what does it mean for time, space and light?

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Its the place where information can only be pulled farther into a black hole. Time, space, and light, pretty much immediately lose any relevance of what they were before crossing this boundary. In our observations of what we think is a black hole, we are really only seeing the smear left over by the stars and gas and matter heating up as they approach the horizon.