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Kerr Black Holes, Spin & Frame Dragging: Structures & Vocabulary

Real astrophysical black holes are expected to rotate. Black-hole spin influences accretion efficiency, jet power, gravitational-wave merger signals, tidal disruption behavior, and the growth history of supermassive black holes.

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Real astrophysical black holes are expected to rotate.

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Rotating mass drags local inertial frames, an effect called frame dragging.

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Relativistic X-ray reflection spectra, continuum fitting, quasi-periodic timing behavior, and horizon-scale observations constrain spin-dependent accretion geometry.