Kerr geometry

English

Etymology

Named after New Zealand physicist Roy Kerr.

Noun

Kerr geometry (usually uncountable, plural Kerr geometries)

  1. The geometry of empty spacetime around a rotating uncharged axially-symmetric black hole with a spherical event horizon.
    • March 14, 2018, Roger Penrose writing in The Guardian, '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.
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