Schwarzschild coordinates

ID: schwarzschild-coordinates

Schwarzschild coordinates are a specific set of coordinates used in general relativity to describe the spacetime geometry outside a spherically symmetric, non-rotating mass, such as a stationary black hole or a planet. These coordinates are named after the German physicist Karl Schwarzschild, who first found the solution to Einstein's field equations that describes such a spacetime in 1916.

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