Schwarzschild Radius -- from Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

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Schwarzschild Radius

The Schwarzschild radius gives the radius at which the Schwarzschild metric becomes singular, and is therefore the "size" of a black hole. It can naively (although incorrectly) be derived by letting the escape velocity of a black hole equal to the speed of light


where G is the gravitational constant, M is the mass of the black hole, and c is the speed of light, giving


Black Hole, Escape Velocity, Schwarzschild Black Hole


© 1996-2007 Eric W. Weisstein

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