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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.
Since and ,
Substitution into the metric gives
These are Ingoing Eddington-Finkelstein coordinates. Every coefficient is finite at , and the determinant of the block is . Thus the apparent singularity there in Schwarzschild coordinates is a coordinate singularity; the metric extends smoothly across the Schwarzschild event horizon.