• 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 is the most general asymptotically flat and stationary solution of the Einstein–Maxwell equations in general relativity that describes...
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    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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  • Reissner–Nordström metric. Rotating black holes are described by the Kerr metric and the Kerr–Newman metric.[further explanation needed] Other notable metrics are:...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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