Effectively, the event horizon of a rotating black hole is smaller than the event horizon of an otherwise identical but non-rotating one.
In a rotating black hole, the ergosphere is associated with the stationary limit, the location at which space-time is flowing at the speed of light, making stationary particles that would be travelling at the speed of light. Within the stationary limit, no particles can remain at rest, even though they are outside the event horizon.
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