Reversed sense of the outward direction for dynamical effects of rotation close to a Schwarzschild black hole

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics

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Angular Momentum, Black Holes (Astronomy), Centrifugal Force, Rotation, Schwarzschild Metric, Astrophysics, Geodesic Lines, Torque, Viscosity

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Anderson and Lemos (1988) noticed that the direction in which viscous torque transports angular momentum changes, close to a black hole, from outwards to inwards. We find here that close to a black hole the centrifugal force attracts particles towards the hole. We argue that these are particular examples of a general reversal in sense of the inward and outward directions for all dynamical effects of rotation close to the hole. Using results from the recent paper by Abramowicz, Carter and Lasota (1988) we explain that the reversal is not connected with dragging of inertial frames or with the difference between the angular velocities of the hole and of the surrounding matter but rather, it is an effect of curvature. For a Schwarzschild black hole the reversal takes place at the circular photon orbit (r=3M-tilde) because the geodesic curvature, R-tilde=r(1-3M-tilde/r), of the circles r = const. changes its sign there.

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