Kerr black hole Comparison Table

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Kerr black hole comparison table

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black hole massive compact halo object A gravitationally collapsed mass inside the Schwarzschild radius (q.v.), from which no light, matter, or signal of any kind can escape. A black hole occurs when the escape velocity of a body becomes the velocity of light (2GM / R = c²). If an object with the mass of the Sun had a radius of 2.5 km, it would be a black hole. Black holes represent one of the possible endpoints of stellar evolution for stars very much more massive than the Chandrasekhar limit.

Kerr black hole black hole A rotating, axisymmetric black hole based on Kerr's 1963 solution to Einstein's field equations.

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black hole	massive compact halo object	A gravitationally collapsed mass inside the Schwarzschild radius (q.v.), from which no light, matter, or signal of any kind can escape. A black hole occurs when the escape velocity of a body becomes the velocity of light (2GM / R = c²). If an object with the mass of the Sun had a radius of 2.5 km, it would be a black hole. Black holes represent one of the possible endpoints of stellar evolution for stars very much more massive than the Chandrasekhar limit.
Kerr black hole	black hole	A rotating, axisymmetric black hole based on Kerr's 1963 solution to Einstein's field equations.

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