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Kerr-Newman black holes#

The charged, rotating black hole: horizons, spherical photon orbits, charged-particle geodesics, and the shadow that completes the Schwarzschild, Reissner-Nordström and Kerr family.

The Kerr-Newman black hole: geodesics and the shadow of a charged, rotating hole

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