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Schwarzschild solves the field equations for a point mass

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Working at the Russian front, Karl Schwarzschild found the exact vacuum solution for the spacetime outside a spherical mass and sent it to Einstein, who presented it to the Prussian Academy; it was published in the Academy's proceedings in 1916. The solution contains a radius at which its coordinate description breaks down - the quantity now called the Schwarzschild radius - but neither Schwarzschild nor his contemporaries read this as a boundary of no return. Schwarzschild died in May of the same year.

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  2. Working at the Russian front, Karl Schwarzschild found the exact vacuum solution for the spacetime outside a spherical mass and sent it to Einstein, who presented it to the Prussian Academy; it was published in the Academy's proceedings in 1916. The solution contains a radius at which its coordinate description breaks down - the quantity now called the Schwarzschild radius - but neither Schwarzschild nor his contemporaries read this as a boundary of no return. Schwarzschild died in May of the same year.
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  4. Schwarzschild radius
  5. The event horizon
  6. Karl Schwarzschild
  7. Schwarzschild solves the field equations for a point mass
  8. Connections
  9. Schwarzschild radius
  10. Karl Schwarzschild
  11. The event horizon
  12. Karl Schwarzschild
  13. The event horizon
  14. The photon sphere and the shadow
  15. Time dilation near a horizon
  16. Tidal stretching near a black hole
  17. Einstein presents the field equations of general relativity
  18. Schwarzschild solves the field equations for a point mass
  19. Schwarzschild radius
  20. Schwarzschild solves the field equations for a point mass
  21. The Kerr solution and black hole spin
  22. Schwarzschild radius
  23. Black hole entropy
  24. Schwarzschild solves the field equations for a point mass
  25. Oppenheimer and Snyder compute continued gravitational contraction
  26. Penrose proves that collapse to a singularity is generic
  27. The term "black hole" enters use
  28. GW150914 - two black holes merge and the signal reaches Earth
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  30. The first exact solution of the Einstein field equations for the vacuum outside a spherical mass, containing the radius now named for its author. V55 VERIFICATION BASIS: the paper was NOT consulted in this session - WebFetch was refused by the network egress proxy for every host attempted and the WebSearch budget was exhausted before authoring began. Title, venue and page range are given from the author's recall of a canonical citation and must be checked.
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