An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics

The first exact solution of → Einstein’s field equations that describes the → space-time geometry outside a spherical distribution of mass.

See also: Briefly following Einstein’s publication of → General Relativity, Karl Schwarzschild discovered this solution in 1916
(Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Phys.-Math. Klasse, 189); → Schwarzschild black hole.