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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. Gullstrand–Painlevé coordinates - Wikipedia

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    It can not escape from the event horizon. Instead, it gets stuck at the event horizon. Since light moves faster than all others, matter can only move inward at the event horizon. Everything inside the event horizon is hidden from the outside world. Inside the event horizon, <, the rain observer measures that the light moves toward the center ...

  4. Event horizon - Wikipedia

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    A cosmic event horizon is a real event horizon because it affects all kinds of signals, including gravitational waves, which travel at the speed of light. More specific horizon types include the related but distinct absolute and apparent horizons found around a black hole.

  5. 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 ...

  6. Rotating black hole - Wikipedia

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    [7] [8] This can happen through the Penrose process inside the black hole's ergosphere, in the volume outside its event horizon. [9] In some cases of energy extraction, a rotating black hole may gradually reduce to a Schwarzschild black hole, the minimum configuration from which no further energy can be extracted, although the Kerr black hole's ...

  7. Reissner–Nordström metric - Wikipedia

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    These concentric event horizons become degenerate for 2r Q = r s, which corresponds to an extremal black hole. Black holes with 2r Q > r s cannot exist in nature because if the charge is greater than the mass there can be no physical event horizon (the term under the square root becomes negative). [9]

  8. 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 ...

  9. Rindler coordinates - Wikipedia

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    Since it is getting shorter, the back end must accelerate harder than the front. Another way to look at it is: the back end must achieve the same change in velocity in a shorter period of time. This leads to a differential equation showing that, at some distance, the acceleration of the trailing end diverges, resulting in the Rindler horizon.