Multipole moments of bumpy black holes

General relativity predicts the existence of black holes, compact objects whose spacetimes depend only on their mass, spin, and charge in vacuum (the “no-hair” theorem). As various observations probe deeper into the strong fields of black hole candidates, it is becoming possible to test this predict...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vigeland, Sarah Jane
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Physical Society 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/63161