A well-established phenomenon in general relativity is the dragging of inertial frames by a spinning object. In particular, due to the dragging of inertial frames by a ring orbiting a central black hole, the angular velocity BH-ring H of the black-hole horizon in the composed black-hole-ring system is no longer related to the black-hole angular momentum J H by the simple Kerr-like (vacuum) relation Kerr H (J H ) = J H /2M 2 R H (here M and R H are the mass and horizon-radius of the black hole, respectively). Will has performed a perturbative treatment of the composed black-hole-ring system in the regime of slowly rotating black holes and found the explicit relation
BH-ring H(J H = 0, J R , R) = 2J R /R 3 for the angular velocity of a central black hole with zero angular momentum, where J R and R are respectively the angular momentum of the orbiting ring and its proper circumferential radius. Analyzing a sequence of black-hole-ring configurations with adiabatically varying (decreasing) circumferential radii, we show that the expression found by Will for BH-ring H (J H = 0, J R , R) implies a smooth transition of the central black-hole angular velocity from its asymptotic nearhorizon value H are the new parameters of the resulting Kerr (vacuum) black hole after it assimilated the orbiting ring]. We use this important observation in order to generalize the result of Will to the regime of black-hole-ring configurations in which the central black holes possess non-zero angular momenta. In particular, it is shown that the continuity argument (namely, the characteristic smooth evolution of the black-hole angular velocity during an adiabatic assimilation process of the a e-mail: shaharhod@gmail.com ring into the central black hole) yields a concrete prediction for the angular-velocity/angular-momentum asymptotic functional relationof generic (that is, with J H = 0) black-hole-ring configurations. Remarkably, we find the simple universal rela-3 for the asymptotic deviation of the black-hole angular velocity in the composed black-hole-ring system from the corresponding angular velocity of the unperturbed (vacuum) Kerr black hole with the same angular momentum.