The Kerr metric or Kerr geometry describes the geometry of empty spacetime around a rotating uncharged axially symmetric black hole with a quasispherical...
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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...
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Rotating black hole (redirect from Kerr-Newmann rotating black hole)
field equation. There are two known exact solutions, the Kerr metric and the Kerr–Newman metric, which are believed to be representative of all rotating...
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solution Reissner–Nordström metric (charged, non-rotating solution) Kerr metric (uncharged, rotating solution) Kerr–Newman metric (charged, rotating solution)...
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Killing tensor (section Kerr metric)
t-coordinate basis vector, and the −+++ signature convention is used. The Kerr metric, describing a rotating black hole, has two independent Killing vectors...
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limit where M (or, equivalently, rs) goes to zero, the Kerr metric becomes the orthogonal metric for the oblate spheroidal coordinates c 2 d τ 2 = c 2...
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relativity, the metric tensor (in this context often abbreviated to simply the metric) is the fundamental object of study. The metric captures all the...
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analogous solution for a charged, rotating body is given by the Kerr–Newman metric. The metric was discovered between 1916 and 1921 by Hans Reissner, Hermann...
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the Kerr metric, which is a spinning black hole in a vacuum, if the angular momentum ( J {\displaystyle J} ) is high enough. Transforming the Kerr metric...
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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...
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equations. In 1964, Newman and Janis showed that the Kerr metric could be obtained from the Schwarzschild metric by means of a coordinate transformation and allowing...
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Taub–NUT space (redirect from Taub-NUT metric)
Tamburino and Unti showed how to extend the metric across these surfaces. When Roy Kerr developed the Kerr metric for spinning black holes in 1963, he ended...
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supermassive stars. It can be shown that it is an approximation to the Kerr metric (which describes a rotating black hole) when the quadrupole moment is...
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The Kerr–Newman–de–Sitter metric (KNdS) is the one of the most general stationary solutions of the Einstein–Maxwell equations in general relativity that...
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Naked singularity (section Metrics)
singularities" are unstable. Disappearing event horizons exist in the Kerr metric, which is a spinning black hole in a vacuum. Specifically, if the angular...
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Ring singularity (redirect from Kerr wormhole)
referred to as a ringularity or Kerr singularity. A rotating hole's rotational frame-dragging effects, described by the Kerr metric, cause spacetime in the vicinity...
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concept of Kerr–Schild perturbations and developed the Kerr–Newman metric. During his time in Texas, Kerr supervised four PhD students. In 1971, Kerr returned...
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Ricci-flat manifold (redirect from Ricci-flat metric)
Lorentzian geometry, a number of Ricci-flat metrics are known from works of Karl Schwarzschild, Roy Kerr, and Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat. In Riemannian geometry...
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Reissner-Nordström metric" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 October 2022. Teukolsky, Saul (1 June 2015). "The Kerr metric" (PDF). Classical...
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black hole 1963 — Roy Kerr solves the Einstein vacuum field equations for uncharged symmetric rotating systems, deriving the Kerr metric for a rotating black...
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universe does not appear to have, such as the universal rotation of the Gödel metric or the rotating cylinder of infinite length known as a Tipler cylinder....
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general-relativistic correction accounting for the frame dragging by the Kerr metric of curved space near a large rotating mass. The Schwarzschild geodesics...
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February 2019. Kerr, R. P. (2009). "The Kerr and Kerr-Schild metrics". In Wiltshire, D. L.; Visser, M.; Scott, S. M. (eds.). The Kerr Spacetime. Cambridge...
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describable by the historic Schwarzschild metric in the spherical limit and by the more recently discovered Kerr metric if angular momentum is present. If the...
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general relativistic correction accounting for the frame dragging by the Kerr metric of curved space time near a large rotating mass. Schwarzschild geodesics...
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black holes is somewhat more complicated. The equatorial ISCO in the Kerr metric depends on whether the orbit is prograde (negative sign in r m s {\displaystyle...
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cosmic censorship is violated but strong cosmic censorship is valid. The Kerr metric, corresponding to a black hole of mass M {\displaystyle M} and angular...
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asymptotically flat spacetime is the Schwarzschild metric solution. More generally, the Kerr metric is also asymptotically flat. But another well known...
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the Schwarzschild solution, the Reissner–Nordström solution and the Kerr metric, each corresponding to a certain type of black hole in an otherwise empty...
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black-hole spacetimes, the Schwarzschild metric, the Reissner–Nordström metric, the Kerr metric and the Kerr–Newman metric, and in all cosmological solutions...
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