In general relativity Kruskal–Szekeres coordinates, named after Martin Kruskal and George Szekeres, are a coordinate system for the Schwarzschild geometry for a black hole. These coordinates have the advantage that they cover the entire spacetime manifold of the maximally extended Schwarzschild solution and are well-behaved everywhere outside the physical singularity.
Kruskal–Szekeres coordinates are defined, from the Schwarzschild coordinates , by replacing t and r by a new time coordinate T and a new spatial coordinate X:
for the exterior region , and:
for the interior region . Note GM is the gravitational constant multiplied by the Schwarzschild mass parameter, and this article is using units where c = 1.