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Kerr black hole animation

Version 2.1 (1.23 KB) by Nicolas Douillet
A function to create an animation of a Kerr black hole with the path of an object passing throught its horizon.
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For pedagogic / scientific diffusion purposes.

F5 to run and create the animation file named 'Kerr_black_hole_animation.gif' that will appear in the same directory as you registered this .m file.

Surface is a catenoid. The trajectory of an object taken by the black hole while the rotation increased is drawn in red.

Parameters -like the ones for the display- may be tuned in the file header.

To benefit from the file documentation attached, be sure to download the file, not to just copy and paste it.

Cite As

Nicolas Douillet (2023). Kerr black hole animation (https://github.com/NicolasDouillet/Kerr_black_hole_animation/releases/tag/v2.1), GitHub. Retrieved .

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Created with R2019b
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Version Published Release Notes
2.1

See release notes for this release on GitHub: https://github.com/NicolasDouillet/Kerr_black_hole_animation/releases/tag/v2.1
2.0

See release notes for this release on GitHub: https://github.com/NicolasDouillet/Kerr_black_hole_animation/releases/tag/v2.0
1.1

Some code cleaning
1.0.0

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