Areas of the event horizon and stationary limit surface for a Kerr black hole
Abstract
We present an elementary evaluation of the surface areas of the event horizon and stationary limit surface for an uncharged Kerr black hole. The latter appears not to have been previously given in the literature, and permits us to suggest new geometrical/physical interpretations of these areas.
- Publication:
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American Journal of Physics
- Pub Date:
- August 2000
- DOI:
- 10.1119/1.19536
- arXiv:
- arXiv:gr-qc/0001053
- Bibcode:
- 2000AmJPh..68..746P
- Keywords:
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- 01.50.-i;
- 97.60.Lf;
- 04.70.-s;
- Educational aids;
- Black holes;
- Physics of black holes;
- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
- E-Print:
- LaTeX2e, 6 pages, Accepted by the American Journal of Physics