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^[1]:

     The relative boost I talked about is again between an early infaller which could be part of the matter and a late infaller.