Twisting of light around rotating black holes

Nature Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 195-197

  Tamburini, Fabrizio ^a   Thidé, Bo ^b   Molina Terriza, Gabriel ^c   Anzolin, Gabriele ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF SPACE PHYSICS   (Sweden)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d Parc Mediterrani de la Tecnologia   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; GRAVITATION; STARS;

ASTROPHYSICAL OBJECTS; ASYMPTOTIC OBSERVER; EQUATORIAL PLANES; GENERAL RELATIVITY THEORY; GEODESIC EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; RELATIVISTIC EFFECTS;

RELATIVITY;

EID: 79952441007     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1907     Document Type: Article

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