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PHYSICS LETTERS B
Volume 688, Issue 1, Pages 82-87Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2010.03.075
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Black holes; String theory
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Kerrr in the title is not a typo. The third r stands for regular, in the sense of pathology-free rotating black hole. We exhibit a long search-for, exact, Kerr-like, solution of the Einstein equations with novel features: (i) no curvature ring singularity: (ii) no anti-gravity universe with causality violating time-like closed world-lines; (iii) no super-luminal matter disk. The ring singularity is replaced by a classical, circular, rotating string with Planck tension representing the inner engine driving the rotation of all the surrounding matter. The resulting geometry is regular and smoothly interpolates among inner Minkowski space, borderline de Sitter and outer Kerr universe. The key ingredient to cure all unphysical features of the ordinary Kerr black hole is the choice of a non-commutative geometry inspired matter source as the input for the Einstein equations, in analogy with spherically symmetric black holes described in earlier works. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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