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When one observer sends light signals to another, the frequency of the light measured at emission by the first observer is generally not the same as that measured at reception by the second. Even in special relativity, the light is redshifted if the second is moving away from the first. This is the Doppler effect. In general relativity, there is a gravitational redshift when both are at rest in the gravitational field of a static spherically symmetric body, and the first is below the second.
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(2007). Redshift and Horizons. In: General Relativity. Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-487-8_12
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