English Explanatory Dictionary

last photon orbit

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Synonym of photon sphere.

Word forms

last photon orbit last photon orbits

Etymology

From being the closest tangential approach to a black hole, where a photon's path does not eventually fall through the event horizon.

Synonyms

photon sphere
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