Schwarzschild marginally bound capture ($|h|<4M$)

A timelike geodesic with unit specific Killing energy can plunge from infinity into a Schwarzschild black hole only if its specific angular momentum satisfies $|h|<4M$. The limiting case $|h|=4M$ asymptotes to the unstable orbit at $r=4M$. A geodesic already inside the angular-momentum barrier can cross the event horizon with larger $|h|$, so the origin-at-infinity condition matters.