Re: Black holes and such

[Rodent of Unusual Size]

On 2001-08-15 at 09h04, possibly To Brin-L et al.,
the keyboard of "Alberto Monteiro" chattered:
> 
> A blackhole doesn't spin. Spin requires a physical
> rigid body or some approximation to it, and a black
> hole can only have mass, angular momentum and charge

Uh?  How can you have a non-zero angular momentum
without spin?  I believe that a spinless blackhole
is a 'naked singularity,' neh?  With an accretion cloud
rather than a disc.
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