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Kerr black hole
  سیه‌چال ِ کر   
siyah câl-e Kerr (#)

Fr.: trou noir de Kerr   

A → black hole that possesses only mass (not electric charge) and rotates about a central axis. It has an → ergosphere and a → stationary limit.

Named after the New Zealand mathematician Roy P. Kerr (1934-) who, in 1963, was the first to solve the → field equationss of Einstein's theory of → general relativity for a situation of this kind; → black hole.