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mfb- t1_jaqgco2 wrote

It wouldn't be an event horizon if you could get out.

Newtonian mechanics doesn't have event horizons so it's important to consider general relativity here. If you are inside the photon sphere (1.5 times the radius of the event horizon for a non-rotating black hole) then tangential motion makes you fall in faster. Every attempt to orbit there makes you spiral into the black hole.

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