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BZ black hole en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

  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:

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