Meanings
nounKerr geometry (usually uncountable, plural Kerr geometries)
plural Kerr geometries
- uncountableusuallyThe geometry of empty spacetime around a rotating uncharged axially-symmetric black hole with a spherical event horizon.
The very remarkable conclusion of all this is that the black holes that we expect to find in nature have to conform to this Kerr geometry.
March 14, 2018, Roger Penrose, “'Mind over matter': Stephen Hawking – obituary”, in The Guardian
Origin
Named after New Zealand physicist Roy Kerr.
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