Visualizing spacetime curvature via frame-drag vortexes and tidal tendexes. II. Stationary black holes
Visualizing spacetime curvature via frame-drag vortexes and tidal tendexes. II. Stationary black holes
When one splits spacetime into space plus time, the Weyl curvature tensor (which equals the Riemann tensor in vacuum) splits into two spatial, symmetric, traceless tensors: the tidal field $\mathcal{E}$, which produces tidal forces, and the frame-drag field $\mathcal{B}$, which produces differential frame dragging. In recent papers, we and colleagues …