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Electromagnetic extraction of energy from Kerr black holes

R. D. Blandford, +1 more
- 01 Jul 1977 - 
- Vol. 179, Iss: 3, pp 433-456
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This article is published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.The article was published on 1977-07-01 and is currently open access. It has received 4406 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Binary black hole & Hawking radiation.

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