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Old 07-04-2011, 07:40 AM
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Thanks Steve.

Yes now that you bring that up I remember now reading something like that in that book, but that leads me to further wonder why a ring and not a flattened disk like a pancake or even an egg with a bulge in the center?
Hello Paul,

The ring is not an "object" which is shaped by centrifugal forces but is a property of spacetime.

A non rotating black hole is defined as spherically symmetrical spacetime with a point singularity and a single event horizon to an observer outside the black hole.

When you rotate the black hole, the spacetime doesn't flatten out. Instead you have an inner and outer horizon and a ring singularity.

The ring singularity can be thought of as an "orbit" of a point singularity.

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Steven
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