Observer event horizon ($H_{\gamma }^{+}=\partial I^{-}(\gamma ),H_{\gamma }^{-}=\partial I^{+}(\gamma )$)

An observer's future event horizon bounds the events that can ever signal to its future-inextendible worldline. Its past event horizon bounds the events reachable by signals from its past-inextendible worldline. A complete inertial observer in Minkowski spacetime has neither. The uniformly accelerated worldline $t=a^{-1}\sinh (a\tau )$, $x=a^{-1}\cosh (a\tau )$ has $I^{-}(\gamma )=\{t-x<0\}$ and $I^{+}(\gamma )=\{t+x>0\}$. Their boundaries are its two Rindler horizons. This observer dependence is distinct from a black-hole horizon defined using future null infinity.

For a comoving observer in a spatially flat Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker metric, a finite future conformal time interval gives an event horizon at the displayed comoving radius. Its physical radius at time $t$ is $a(t){\chi }_{\mathrm{eh}}(t)$.

A light signal sent from a comoving observer to a comoving reflector at separation $\chi$, and immediately returned, consumes conformal time $2\chi$. The supremum of the initial physical reflector distances allowing a return is therefore half the cosmological event horizon radius. Equality generally requires infinite return time; finite-time reception requires a strictly smaller distance. For a cosmological domain wall network with $a\propto t^2$, the supremum is $t/2=1/H$.