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The Boyer-Lindquist form of the line element is given by

where ρ²=r² + a²cos²θ and Δ=r² - 2mr + a². Here m is the mass of the black hole, and a is the angular velocity, as measured by a distant observer. Note that r does not agree with the radial coordinate of the Schwarzschild solution, except asymptotically.