The Kerr metric
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Abstract: This review describes the events leading up to the discovery of the Kerr metric in 1963 and the enormous impact the discovery has had in the subsequent 50 years. The review discusses the Penrose process, the four laws of black hole mechanics, uniqueness of the solution, and the no-hair theorems. It also includes Kerr perturbation theory and its application to black hole stability and quasi-normal modes. The Kerr metric's importance in the astrophysics of quasars and accreting stellar-mass black hole systems is detailed. A theme of the review is the "miraculous" nature of the solution, both in describing in a simple analytic formula the most general rotating black hole, and in having unexpected mathematical properties that make many calculations tractable. Also included is a pedagogical derivation of the solution suitable for a first course in general relativity.
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- An exact solution for a rotating black hole in modified gravity
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- Infinitely degenerate exact Ricci-flat solutions in f(R) gravity
- Acceleration of charged particles from near-extremal rotating black holes embedded in magnetic fields
- Stealth chaos due to frame-dragging
- The effect of spacetime curvature on statistical distributions
- The Teukolsky-Starobinsky constants: facts and fictions
- A spectral method algorithm for numerical simulations of gravitational fields
- A Class of General Solutions of the Maxwell Equations in the Kerr Space-Time
- Half century of black-hole theory: from physicists' purgatory to mathematicians' paradise
- Numerical Relativity and the Discovery of Gravitational Waves
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- Explicit formulae for surface gravities in stationary circular axi-symmetric spacetimes
- In horizon penetrating coordinates: Kerr black hole metric perturbation, construction and completion
- Motion equations in a Kerr–Newman–de Sitter spacetime: some methods of integration and application to black holes shadowing in Scilab
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- Axisymmetric stationary space-times of constant scalar curvature in four dimensions
- Determination of the angular momentum of the Kerr black hole from equatorial geodesic motion
- Review of the gravitomagnetic clock effect
- Can a radiation gauge be horizon-locking?
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- On axially symmetric perturbations of Kerr black hole spacetimes
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- Chaotic dynamics in extremal black holes: a challenge to the chaos bound
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