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Contributors | p. vii |
Foreword | p. ix |
Preface | p. xiv |
List of Illustrations | p. xiv |
General relativity: Classical studies of the | |
The Kerr spacetime - a brief introduction | p. 3 |
The Kerr and Kerr-Schild metrics | p. 38 |
Roy Kerr and twistor theory | p. 73 |
Global and local problems solved by the Kerr metric | p. 95 |
Four decades of black hole uniqueness theorems | p. 115 |
Ray-traced visualisations in asymptotically flat spacetimes: the Kerr-Newman black hole | p. 144 |
Astrophysics: The ongoing observational revolution in our understanding of rotating black holes | |
The ergosphere and dyadosphere of the Kerr black hole | p. 161 |
Supermassive black holes | p. 213 |
The X-ray spectra of accreting Kerr black holes | p. 236 |
Cosmological flashes from rotating black holes | p. 281 |
Quantum gravity: Rotating black holes at the theoretical frontiers | |
Horizon constraints and black hole entropy | p. 311 |
Higher dimensional generalizations of the Kerr black hole | p. 332 |
Appendices | |
Gravitational field of a spinning mass as an example of algebraically special metrics | p. 347 |
Gravitational collapse and rotation | p. 349 |
Index | p. 354 |
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