Relativistic orbits around a black hole

Black Hole · Relativistic orbits
Presets:
Classic viewEquations← Lab

Exact Schwarzschild timelike geodesic (not the playground's approximation). The orbit precesses into a rosette — the same physics as Mercury's perihelion precession. Below L = √3 there are no stable orbits → plunge. Click in the scene to release the particle at the chosen point. Orange ring = ISCO (r = 6M), light ring = photon sphere.

r0.00 rₛ
v0.000 c
E0.9744
L2.100
Δφ0.0°
statusorbiting