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lines. In addition, a Black Hole’s Event Horizon is the place where
its gravitational pull exactly counteracts the force of light (and
other forms of radiant energy). Outside the Horizon light is able
to escape, inside it is sucked in, whilst precisely at the Event
Horizon light is trapped as a thin layer forever circling around
the Black Hole. Because of this exact equivalence of light and
gravitational energy at the Event Horizon, a Black Hole’s 45
degree light-line can be directly equated with the Event
Horizon. The resulting light-cone can then be called an Event
Cone. This is depicted in a space-time graph Figure known as a
Combined Penrose-Kruskal-Szekere Figure.
Figure 51: An Einsteinian model of a Black Hole and its Event Horizon
Black Holes pose a great mystery to scientists, for within their
“super-space” the causal laws of normality break down, time
and space are reversed and matter and energy are created out
of nothing or, conversely turned back into nothing. For example,
at the very edge of a Black Hole subatomic particles may
suddenly pop into existence. This occurs because the intense
gravity around the Singularity is actually able to tear virtual
matter into its constituent particles and anti-particles. If one half
of the pair just happens to slightly cross the Event Horizon it will