The Thorne spin limit is the equilibrium spin produced by competition between coherent thin-disc matter accretion and capture of disc photons by a Kerr black hole. Preferential capture of counterrotating photon angular momentum prevents the standard radiatively efficient model from reaching . The commonly quoted limit is approximately , with some dependence on emission and accretion assumptions. Thorne's original calculation derives this result.
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