Tuesday, September 26, 2017

black holes - General definition of an event horizon?


Horizons are in general observer-dependent. For example, in Minkowski space, an observer who experiences constant proper acceleration has a horizon.


Black hole horizons are usually defined as boundaries of regions from which no lightlike curve can reach null infinity $\mathscr{I}^+$. But how can this be interpreted in terms of an event horizon for an observer? Immortal material observers end up at timelike infinity $i^+$, not $\mathscr{I}^+$.


Is there some nice way of unifying both cases? In other words, is there a general definition of an event horizon that has both these types of horizons as special cases?



[Edited to clarify the question and remove a mistake about the dimensionality of $i^+$ versus $\mathscr{I}^+$.]




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