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Schwarzschild orbit

A Schwarzschild orbit refers to the path that an object takes when moving in the gravitational field of a non-rotating black hole, described by the Schwarzschild solution in General Relativity. This orbit can be elliptical, parabolic, or hyperbolic, depending on the object's speed and distance from the black hole. The unique aspect of these orbits is their interaction with the intense curvature of spacetime created by the black hole, leading to effects like time dilation and the possibility of orbits that can spiral inwards until the object crosses the event horizon, beyond which nothing can escape.