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Schwarzschild Metric

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1916

Karl Schwarzschild1916

Science / Astronomy

Papers on relativity produced the first exact solutions to the Einstein field equations, and a minor modification of these results gives the well-known solution that now bears his name: the Schwarzschild metric

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Karl Schwarzschild

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