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For a static observer, . Conservation of the photon's Killing energy therefore gives the gravitational redshift between static Schwarzschild observers
For the stated distant observer, and , so
As , the observed wavelength tends to infinity: light emitted from a static source arbitrarily near the Schwarzschild event horizon is infinitely redshifted at infinity.
For a static observer, , so
The coordinate travel time of a radial signal depends only on the fixed endpoint radii. Successive signals emitted a coordinate-time interval apart are therefore received with the same coordinate-time separation. The gravitational redshift between static Schwarzschild observers is consequently
For the numerator is approximately one, while
Hence
The received signals become arbitrarily widely separated and redshifted as Alice approaches the horizon. A static observer exactly at the horizon is impossible because the proper acceleration required to remain static diverges there.