👉 Apocenter is a concept in astrophysics, specifically related to the outermost layer of the solar system. It refers to the point at which an object's gravitational pull becomes so strong that it begins to attract other objects beyond its own orbit. This concept was first described by Albert Einstein and was later formalized by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). The apocenter is a point where the gravitational force of an object becomes too great for the object to escape, and thus