BZ black hole

noun

Etymology

An initialism of Roger Blandford and Roman Znajek, theoretical astrophysicists.

Definitions

  1. A rotating black hole that extracts energy from its rotation and magnetic fields to emit…

    A rotating black hole that extracts energy from its rotation and magnetic fields to emit a jet of particles and radiation.

    • The 'Blandford-Znajek' (BZ) black hole magnetospheric power extraction process was one of the first (1977) analytic attempts to define a general relativistic theory for axisymmetric, stationary, ideal-MHD, BH magnetospheres.

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