ergosphere
nounEtymology From ergo- + -sphere. Coined by Remo Ruffini and John Archibald Wheeler in 1971 in reference to the fact that it is theoretically possible to extract energy from the region.
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Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics A region outside the event horizon of a rotating black hole in which space and time are distorted by shear forces.
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