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Schwarzschild black hole


Definition of Schwarzschild black hole

noun

Physics
  • a black hole of a kind supposed to result from the complete gravitational collapse of an electrically neutral and non-rotating body, having a physical singularity at the centre to which infalling matter inevitably proceeds and at which the curvature of space-time is infinite. A Schwarzschild radius is the radius of the boundary of a hole of this type.

Origin:

named after Karl Schwarzschild (1873–1916), German astronomer

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