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BZ black hole

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

Noun

BZ black hole (plural BZ black holes)

  1. 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.2002, Chang-Hwan Lee, Hŏn-yŏng Chang (editors), Current High-energy Emission Around Black Holes, page 36

Forms of BZ black hole

pluralBZ black holes

Origin of BZ black hole

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

Questions about BZ black hole

What does BZ black hole mean?
BZ black hole means a rotating black hole that extracts energy from its rotation and magnetic fields to emit a jet of particles and radiation.
What part of speech is BZ black hole?
BZ black hole is a noun.
What is the plural of BZ black hole?
The plural of BZ black hole is BZ black holes.

Words near BZ black hole in the dictionary

  1. Byzas
  2. byzen
  3. byzens
  4. byōyomi
  5. BZ
  6. BZ black hole
  7. BZ black holes
  8. BZ reaction
  9. BZ reactions
  10. BZD
  11. Bzdak

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