Near-horizon metric
The near-horizon metric (NHM) refers to the near-horizon limit of the global metric of a black hole. NHMs play an important role in studying the geometry and topology of black holes, but are only well defined for extremal black holes.[1][2][3] NHMs are expressed in Gaussian null coordinates, and one important property is that the dependence on the coordinate is fixed in the near-horizon limit.
NHM of extremal Reissner–Nordström black holes
The metric of extremal Reissner–Nordström black hole is
Taking the near-horizon limit
and then omitting the tildes, one obtains the near-horizon metric
NHM of extremal Kerr black holes
The metric of extremal Kerr black hole () in Boyer–Lindquist coordinates can be written in the following two enlightening forms,[4][5]
where
Taking the near-horizon limit[6][7]
and omitting the tildes, one obtains the near-horizon metric (this is also called extremal Kerr throat[6] )
NHM of extremal Kerr–Newman black holes
Extremal Kerr–Newman black holes () are described by the metric[4][5]
where
Taking the near-horizon transformation
and omitting the tildes, one obtains the NHM[7]
NHMs of generic black holes
In addition to the NHMs of extremal Kerr–Newman family metrics discussed above, all stationary NHMs could be written in the form[1][2][3][8]
where the metric functions are independent of the coordinate r, denotes the intrinsic metric of the horizon, and are isothermal coordinates on the horizon.
Remark: In Gaussian null coordinates, the black hole horizon corresponds to .
See also
References
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