In those coordinates the local clocks and rulers are at constant and have no local orbital angular momentum , therefore they are corotating with the frame-dragging velocity relative to the fixed stars. In (+, −, −, −)signature and in natural units of the KNdS metric is[3][4][5][6]
with all the other metric tensor components , where is the black hole's spin parameter, its electric charge, and [7] the cosmological constant with as the time-independent Hubble parameter. The electromagnetic 4-potential is
The frame-dragging angular velocity is
and the local frame-dragging velocity relative to constant positions (the speed of light at the ergosphere)
The escape velocity (the speed of light at the horizons) relative to the local corotating zero-angular momentum observer is
The conserved quantities in the equations of motion
Defining ingoing lightlike worldlines give a light cone on a spacetime diagram.
Horizons and ergospheres
Horizons and ergosheres in the KNdS metric for different M:Λ ratios. The black hole related surfaces are color coded as in here.Left: horizons, right: ergosheres for M=1, a=9/10, ℧=2/5, Λ=1/9. At this point the black hole's outer ergosphere has joined the cosmic one to form two domes around the black hole.Unstable orbit at r=2 with the black hole and cosmic parameters as in the image above.
The horizons are at and the ergospheres at .
This can be solved numerically or analytically. Like in the Kerr and Kerr–Newman metrics, the horizons have constant Boyer–Lindquist , while the ergospheres' radii also depend on the polar angle .
This gives 3 positive solutions each (including the black hole's inner and outer horizons and ergospheres as well as the cosmic ones) and a negative solution for the space at in the antiverse[8][9] behind the ring singularity, which is part of the probably unphysical extended solution of the metric.
With a negative (the anti–de–Sitter variant with an attractive cosmological constant), there are no cosmic horizon and ergosphere, only the black hole-related ones.
In the Nariai limit[10] the black hole's outer horizon and ergosphere coincide with the cosmic ones (in the Schwarzschild–de–Sitter metric to which the KNdS reduces with that would be the case when ).
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