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  2. Kerr metric - Wikipedia

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    The Kerr metric or Kerr geometry describes the geometry of empty spacetime around a rotating uncharged axially symmetric black hole with a quasispherical event horizon.The Kerr metric is an exact solution of the Einstein field equations of general relativity; these equations are highly non-linear, which makes exact solutions very difficult to find.

  3. Boyer–Lindquist coordinates - Wikipedia

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    In the mathematical description of general relativity, the Boyer–Lindquist coordinates [1] are a generalization of the coordinates used for the metric of a Schwarzschild black hole that can be used to express the metric of a Kerr black hole. The Hamiltonian for particle motion in Kerr spacetime is separable in Boyer–Lindquist coordinates.

  4. Black hole thermodynamics - Wikipedia

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    In physics, black hole thermodynamics [1] is the area of study that seeks to reconcile the laws of thermodynamics with the existence of black hole event horizons.As the study of the statistical mechanics of black-body radiation led to the development of the theory of quantum mechanics, the effort to understand the statistical mechanics of black holes has had a deep impact upon the ...

  5. Kerr–Newman metric - Wikipedia

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    The Kerr–Newman metric describes the spacetime geometry around a mass which is electrically charged and rotating. It is a vacuum solution which generalizes the Kerr metric (which describes an uncharged, rotating mass) by additionally taking into account the energy of an electromagnetic field, making it the most general asymptotically flat and stationary solution of the Einstein–Maxwell ...

  6. Schwarzschild radius - Wikipedia

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    A classification of black holes by mass: Micro black hole and extra-dimensional black hole; Planck length; Primordial black hole, a hypothetical leftover of the Big Bang; Stellar black hole, which could either be a static black hole or a rotating black hole; Supermassive black hole, which could also either be a static black hole or a rotating ...

  7. Black hole - Wikipedia

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    A black hole is a region of spacetime where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape it. [2] Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity predicts that a sufficiently compact mass can deform spacetime to form a black hole. [3] [4] The boundary of no escape is called the event horizon.

  8. Vaidya metric - Wikipedia

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    It is notable that, the Vaidya field is a pure radiation field rather than electromagnetic fields.The emitted particles or energy-matter flows have zero rest mass and thus are generally called "null dusts", typically such as photons and neutrinos, but cannot be electromagnetic waves because the Maxwell-NP equations are not satisfied.

  9. Rotating black hole - Wikipedia

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    A rotating black hole is a black hole that possesses angular momentum. In particular, it rotates about one of its axes of symmetry. All celestial objects – planets, stars , galaxies, black holes – spin. [1] [2] [3] The boundaries of a Kerr black hole relevant to astrophysics. Note that there are no physical "surfaces" as such.