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Extreme black holes have hair that can be combed – EurekAlert

Black holes depend on only three parameters (mass, angular momentum, and charge), a uniqueness property known as the ”no-hair” theorem. In a Letter published…

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IMAGE: Artist’s conception of a rotating black hole accreting matter via an accretion disk and emitting a jet.
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Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Black holes are considered amongst the most mysterious objects in the universe. Part of their intrigue arises from the fact that they are actually amongst the simplest solutions to Einstein’s field equations of general relativity. In fact, black holes can be fully characterized by only three physical quantities: their mass, spin and charge. Since they…

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