infaller

English

Etymology

in- +‎ faller

Noun

infaller (plural infallers)

  1. (astrophysics) A particle that falls behind the event horizon, for example into a black hole.
    • 2016, Roger Blandford, David Gross, Alexander Sevrin, Astrophysics and Cosmology: Proceedings of the 26th Solvay Conference on Physics‎:
      The relative boost I talked about is again between an early infaller which could be part of the matter and a late infaller.
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