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Spinning Down a Black Hole With Scalar Fields

Chris M. Chambers, William A. Hiscock, Brett Taylor

gr-qcarXiv:gr-qc/9703018

Abstract

We study the evolution of a Kerr black hole emitting scalar radiation via the Hawking process. We show that the rate at which mass and angular momentum are lost by the black hole leads to a final evolutionary state with nonzero angular momentum, namely a/M ≈ 0.555.

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