对于$d\geq 3$的Kerr-AdS$_{d+1}$黑洞，在超出极值的一定质量范围内会经历经典超辐射不稳定性。我们推测这些不稳定性最终会稳定为灰星系（Grey Galaxies, GGs）——这是我们在$d=3$下构建的一类新的Einstein方程粗粒化解。灰星系由一个位于$AdS$“中心”、具有临界角速度$ω=1$的黑洞，以及围绕$AdS$中心以光速旋转的大块平坦热气体盘组成。气体携带有限比例的总能量，因为其参数上的低能量密度与大半径成反比关系。GGs存在的质量范围一直延伸到幺正界限。其热力学表现为Kerr-AdS黑洞与体气体的弱相互作用混合。其边界应力张量是一个平滑的“黑洞”贡献与一个尖峰气体贡献之和，后者在大$N$极限下表现为边界球赤道处的delta函数局域化。我们还构建了具有相同电荷的另一类解：“旋转黑洞（Revolving Black Holes, RBHs）”。RBHs是AdS-Kerr解的宏观带电$SO(d,2)$后裔，由在$AdS$中心固定径向位置旋转、但在角向处于量子波函数中的$ω=1$黑洞组成。RBH解在熵上略微劣于GG解，不构成超辐射不稳定性的终点。尽管如此，我们认为这些解的超对称版本对超对称态谱（例如${\cal N}=4$ Yang-Mills理论）具有有趣的意义。
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Kerr-AdS$_{d+1}$ black holes for $d\geq 3$ suffer from classical superradiant instabilities over a range of masses above extremality. We conjecture that these instabilities settle down into Grey Galaxies (GGs) - a new class of coarse-grained solutions to Einstein's equations which we construct in $d=3$. Grey Galaxies are made up of a black hole with critical angular velocity $ω=1$ in the `centre' of $AdS$, surrounded by a large flat disk of thermal bulk gas that revolves around the centre of $AdS$ at the speed of light. The gas carries a finite fraction of the total energy, as its parametrically low energy density and large radius are inversely related. GGs exist at masses that extend all the way down to the unitarity bound. Their thermodynamics is that of a weakly interacting mix of Kerr-AdS black holes and the bulk gas. Their boundary stress tensor is the sum of a smooth `black hole' contribution and a peaked gas contribution that is delta function localized around the equator of the boundary sphere in the large $N$ limit. We also construct another class of solutions with the same charges; `Revolving Black Holes (RBHs)'. RBHs are macroscopically charged $SO(d,2)$ descendants of AdS-Kerr solutions, and consist of $ω=1$ black holes revolving around the centre of $AdS$ at a fixed radial location but in a quantum wave function in the angular directions. RBH solutions are marginally entropically subdominant to GG solutions and do not constitute the endpoint of the superradiant instability. Nonetheless, we argue that supersymmetric versions of these solutions have interesting implications for the spectrum of supersymmetric states in, e.g. ${\cal N}=4$ Yang-Mills theory.
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