Geodesic Precession on a Timelike Circular Orbit around a Schwarzschild Black Hole
Geodesic Precession on a Timelike Circular Orbit around a Schwarzschild Black Hole
An observer moving on a timelike circular orbit around a Schwarzschild black hole experiences a geodesic precession depending on his velocity and the radius of the circular orbit. The black disk represents the black hole with Schwarzschild radius . The local reference frame of the moving observer (red) is given with respect to the Frenet–Serret frame at the current position of the object. Move the proper time slider to see how the local reference frame rotates.
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