Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!tektronix!hplabs!sri-unix!pduff%ti-eg.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa From: pduff%ti-eg.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Shape of a spinning black hole Message-ID: <521@sri-arpa.ARPA> Date: Thu, 29-Aug-85 18:50:00 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.521 Posted: Thu Aug 29 18:50:00 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 2-Sep-85 03:59:16 EDT Lines: 15 From: Patrick_Duff If you spin a non-rigid body (such as the Earth) it will develop an equatorial bulge. Would the event horizon of a rotating black hole be non-spherical? Given a black hole roughly the size (volume, not mass!) of the Earth, if it were spinning at the same rate as the Earth would it have about the same shape as the Earth does? regards, Patrick Patrick S. Duff, ***CR 5621*** pduff.ti-eg@csnet-relay 5049 Walker Dr. #91103 214/480-1659 (work) The Colony, TX 75056-1120 214/370-5363 (home) (a suburb of Dallas, TX)