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Kerr geometry
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Etymology
Named after New Zealand physicist Roy Kerr.
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The geometry of empty spacetime around a rotating uncharged axially-symmetric black hole with a spherical event horizon.
en March 14, 2018 Roger Penrose The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/mar/14/stephen-hawking-obituary 'Mind over matter': Stephen Hawking – obituary The very remarkable conclusion of all this is that the black holes that we expect to find in nature have to conform to this Kerr geometry. https://web.archive.org/web/20261017234410/https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/mar/14/stephen-hawking-obituary 17 October 2026
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