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BZ black hole
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Etymology
An initialism of Roger Blandford and Roman Znajek, theoretical astrophysicists.
Noun
en astrophysics cosmology A rotating black hole that extracts energy from its rotation and magnetic fields to emit a jet of particles and radiation.
en 2002 Current High-energy Emission Around Black Holes Chang-Hwan Lee, Hŏn-yŏng Chang (editors) 36 The 'Blandford-Znajek' (BZ) black hole magnetospheric power extraction process was one of the first (1977) analytic attempts to define a general relativistic theory for axisymmetric, stationary, ideal-MHD, BH magnetospheres.