ergosphere
A region outside the event horizon of a rotating black hole in which space and time…A region outside the event horizon of a rotating black hole in which space and time are distorted by shear forces.
Meaning
1 sensesA region outside the event horizon of a rotating black hole in which space and time are distorted by shear forces.
Translations
1 languagesOrigin
From ergo- + -sphere. Coined by Remo Ruffini and John Archibald Wheeler in 1971 in referenFrom ergo- + -sphere. Coined by Remo Ruffini and John Archibald Wheeler in 1971 in reference to the fact that it is theoretically possible to extract energy from the region.
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Forms
plural: ergospheres| Singular | ergosphere |
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Word family
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