Magnetic Hair and Reconnection in Black Hole Magnetospheres · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2109.14620/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTMagnetic Hair and Reconnection in Black Hole Magnetospheres — mentioned by raattgifthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30915947urn:hackerpapers:mention:2109.14620:30915947Tue, 05 Apr 2022 06:37:01 GMT<p>&gt; not looking forward to the emergence of &quot;hair loss&quot; in ... professional ... black hole discourse That horse bolted from the barn so long ago that the door has rotted away. The process of black hole &quot;hair loss&quot; has been in the jargon with &quot;balding&quot; for decades. Google scholar will find you baldness/bald/balding with respect to black holes in publications from the 1970s, and I would be far from surprised to find that Werner Israel has the first published use of the exact words &quot;hair loss&quot; in the mid 1960s in a paper on electrovacuum spacetimes. Hair loss is an important feature of the…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2109.14620/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>astro-ph.HE