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Astronomy
The Schwarzschild radius; the radius from a
black hole
or other physical singularity within which even light cannot escape. It is also the radius to which a mass must be compressed down to in order to turn it into a black hole.
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Development Notes
Text by
M. Alan Kazlev
Initially published on 24 October 2001.
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