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According to Penrose's research, a non-rotating star would end up, after gravitational collapse, as a perfectly spherical black hole. However, every star in the universe has some kind of angular momentum.

Why even bother doing that research if that won't ever happen in the universe and does it have any implications for the future of astrophysics?

All models are approximations, we judge a model on how useful it is.

Understanding the collapse of a non-rotating star to a black hole gives insight into the nature of gravitational collapse. Much of the physics of collapse does not depend on spin. The formation of an event horizon, for example.

Models can be refined, and in this case, considering rotation leads to further insight, and a non-spherically symmetric structure with multiple singular horizons.

All models are necessarily simplifications. But the non-rotating model is still useful.

In a similar way, we could ask...

No beams can be exactly 1 meter long. No beams can be exactly
straight. The material making up a beam cannot be truly isotropic.
So why should we bother calculating the stress in a 1 meter straight
beam having isotropic material?

Because knowing how to perform this calculation is a building block for doing more complex calculations.

The non-rotating black hole calculation also provides a limiting solution. The solution for a spinning star's collapse will approach this solution as the spin approaches zero.

Similarly, Newton told us that as external forces approach zero, the path of a moving object will approach a straight line. This is useful to know even though there is no place in our universe that doesn't have gravitational influence.

Another consideration is that the physics that describe a rotating black hole was much harder to develop.

The maths describing the Schwarzschild (uncharged, non-spinning) black hole was developed in 1916. This was expanded to charged, non-spinning black holes in 1918 (The Reissner–Nordström metric)

It wasn't until 1963 that the Kerr metric for uncharged spinning black holes was developed. Two years later, the most general form, the Kerr-Newman metric was found.

I wouldn't fancy waiting 47 years for a more accurate black hole model to be developed before doing any meaningful work in the field.

Our sun's rotation period is 24.47 days at the equator and almost 38 days at the poles, our planet's rotational period is 23h 56m 4.098,903,691s. Use of Schwarzschild equations for either case isn't exact.

If you used the equation for non-rotating objects to calculate the time at the altitude of GPS satellites (~ 20,200 km or 12,550 miles) then you would be off by 38,636 nanoseconds per day. A Julian year is defined as 365.25 days of exactly 86,400 seconds (SI base unit), totalling exactly 31,557,600 seconds in the Julian astronomical year. The Gregorian calendar year (400 year average) is 365.2425 days.

Multiplying 365.2425 x 38,636 = 14,111,509.23 nanoseconds, that's 0.0141 seconds per year. If being off by that amount isn't of any concern to you then you can use the easier equation, such as for calculations involving the star HR 1362 which has a rotational period that is 306.9 ± 0.4 days.

You're right: all stars rotate. The only reason I can think of why astrophysicists make calculations for a non-rotating star or black hole is that it makes their calculations a bit easier. Although all stars rotate, some rotate much faster than others, and their masses vary too, so there is a wide degree of uncertainty which is reduced by calculating for a star that does not rotate.