Kerr black hole

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Kerr black hole by Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-11-05
A Kerr black hole is the rotating, stationary, axisymmetric vacuum spacetime described by the Kerr metric. In geometrized units , let be its mass and its angular momentum. Its radial horizon polynomial is
A Kerr black hole requires ; equality is the extremal black hole limit. The Schwarzschild black hole is recovered at . The outer Killing horizon rotates with angular velocity . The exterior Kerr ergoregion is distinct from that horizon and permits rotational black-hole energy extraction.[ref]

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