Schwarzschild Metric - Wikipedia - Karl Schwarzschild ![rw-book-cover|200x400](https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/static/images/article3.5c705a01b476.png) ## Metadata - Author: **Karl Schwarzschild** - Full Title: Schwarzschild Metric - Wikipedia - Category: #articles - URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarzschild_metric ## Highlights - In Einstein's theory of general relativity, the Schwarzschild metric (also known as the Schwarzschild solution) is an exact solution to the Einstein field equations that describes the gravitational field outside a spherical mass, on the assumption that the electric charge of the mass, angular momentum of the mass, and universal cosmological constant are all zero