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What angle would frame dragging shove matter in the innermost accretion disk relative to the equatorial plane or orbit?

I understand that frame dragging will imbue momentum on plasma orbiting a black hole at close range. My first question is - is this kinetic energy inserted very narrowly relative to the equatorial ...
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Space mission for experimental verification of frame-dragging in the strong-gravity limit

Frame-dragging is an important general relativistic effect that has been observed in the weak-field limit by the Gravity Probe B experiment for the gravitational field of the Earth. Although the ...
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