Metric of supermassive black holes

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Do supermassive black holes have a schwarzschild metric?
 
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Rothiemurchus said:
Do supermassive black holes have a schwarzschild metric?
Yes, as long as they don't rotate.
 
And as long as they are not charged, if charged black holes exist.
 
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