BZ black hole

English

Etymology

An initialism of Roger Blandford and Roman Znajek, theoretical astrophysicists.

Noun

BZ black hole (plural BZ black holes)

1. (astrophysics, cosmology) A rotating black hole that extracts energy from its rotation and magnetic fields to emit a jet of particles and radiation.
   • 2002, Chang-Hwan Lee, Hŏn-yŏng Chang (editors), Current High-energy Emission Around Black Holes, page 36:

     The 'Blandford-Znajek' (BZ) black hole magnetospheric power extraction process was one of the first (1977) analytic attempts to define a general relativistic theory for axisymmetric, stationary, ideal-MHD, BH magnetospheres.