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What does "stationary" mean in this context? There's no fixed reference point in the universe, so everything should be moving.
by mark-r 6y ago
What does "stationary" mean in this context? There's no fixed reference point in the universe, so everything should be moving.
- jagraff 6y agoI suspect it means "non-rotating"
- evanb 6y agoStationary means a blackhole that is not evolving in time---one that is in a stationary state https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stationary_state https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stationary_state Note that the article focuses on the QM meaning of stationary, but there's a perfectly good classical analogue: something which is not evolving in time. That doesn't mean that the BH can't spin, it's that the mass, charge, angular momentum isn't changing.