Schwarzschild conformal compactification

ID: schwarzschild-conformal-compactification

For the Kruskal–Szekeres coordinates of a positive-mass Schwarzschild spacetime, . The displayed conformal compactification makes radial null geodesics lines of slope . The Killing horizons are , and the spacelike curvature singularities lie at , with . Two asymptotically flat exterior regions each have past null infinity, null infinity to the future, timelike infinity and spacelike infinity. The two exterior regions cannot communicate by any causal curve; future-directed curves that cross a future horizon instead end at the black-hole singularity.

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