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The so-called ``analogue models of general relativity'' provide a number of specific physical systems, well outside the traditional realm of general relativity, that nevertheless are well-described by the differential geometry of curved…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Carlos Barcelo , Stefano Liberati , Sebastiano Sonego , Matt Visser

A classical black hole is characterized by a horizon that absorbs radiation of all frequencies incident on it. Perturbation of these black holes is well-understood via exponentially damped sinusoids known as quasi-normal modes. Any…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-09 Kabir Chakravarti , Rajes Ghosh , Sudipta Sarkar

Analogue black holes, which can mimic the kinetic aspects of real black holes, have been proposed for many years. The growth of the radial momentum of test particles toward the acoustic horizon is calculated for acoustic black holes in flat…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-29 QingBing Wang , Xian-Hui Ge

We study spherical and nonspherical linear acoustic perturbations of the Michel flow, which describes the steady radial accretion of a perfect fluid into a nonrotating black hole. The dynamics of such perturbations are governed by a scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-10 Eliana Chaverra , Manuel D. Morales , Olivier Sarbach

The study of acoustic black holes has been undertaken to provide new insights about the role of high frequencies in black hole evaporation. Because of the infinite gravitational redshift from the event horizon, Hawking quanta emerge from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Renaud Parentani

The Hawking effect can be understood as a broad kinematic phenomenon associated with mode behavior near a horizon. While astrophysical black holes produce one specific realization of this radiation, this perspective inspires extensive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-05 Isaac Bernal , Miguel A. Cortés-Ortiz , David Bermudez

The sound modes of a flowing superfluid is described by the massless Klein-Gordon equation in an effective background metric. This effective background metric can be designed to mimick a black hole using the acoustic horizon. In this work,…

General Physics · Physics 2024-10-10 Joseph Carlo U. Candare , Kristian Hauser A. Villegas

Analogue gravity succeeded to simulate Hawking radiation and test it in laboratories. In this setting, the black hole is simulated by an area in a fluid, say water, where no sound wave can escape the event horizon and phonon oscillations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-10 Shahrokh Parvizi , Mojtaba Shahbazi

Recent experimental progresses in controlling classical and quantum fluids have made it possible to realize acoustic analogues of gravitational black holes, where a flowing fluid provides an effective spacetime on which sound waves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-22 Lawrence M. Krauss , Francesco Marino , Samuel L. Braunstein , Mir Faizal , Naveed A. Shah

For axially symmetric accretion maintained in hydrostatic equilibrium along the vertical direction, we investigate how the characteristic features of the embedded acoustic geometry depends on the background Kerr metric, and how such…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-07 Susovan Maity , Pratik Tarafdar , Md. Arif Shaikh , Tapas K. Das

We study acoustic-gravity waves in a quasi-isothermal atmosphere in the presence of a weak random addition to the vertical temperature profile, which simulates the real atmosphere of the Earth at altitudes greater than $\sim 200$ km. The…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-12-23 V. M. Lashkin , O. K. Cheremnykh

In the analogue gravity framework, the acoustic disturbances in a moving fluid can be described by an equation of motion identical to a relativistic scalar massless field propagating in a curved spacetime. This description is possible only…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-06 Bethan Cropp , Stefano Liberati , Rodrigo Turcati

Recently it was shown that, in an effective description motivated by loop quantum gravity, singularities of the Kruskal space-time are naturally resolved [1,2]. In this note we explore a few properties of this quantum corrected effective…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-14 Abhay Ashtekar , Javier Olmedo

In this paper, we first analyze the horizon structure of the acoustic charged black hole in curved spacetime, and then study its acoustic shadow as well as the near-horizon characteristics including the quasinormal modes (QNM) frequencies…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-03 Ru Ling , Hong Guo , Hang Liu , Xiao-Mei Kuang , Bin Wang

Gravitational wave echoes from the black holes have been suggested as a crucial observable to probe the spacetime in the vicinity of the horizon. In particular, it was speculated that the echoes are closely connected with specific…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-11 Hang Liu , Wei-Liang Qian , Yunqi Liu , Jian-Pin Wu , Bin Wang , Rui-Hong Yue

Spectral and timing properties of accretion flows on a black hole depend on their density and temperature distributions, which in turn come from the underlying dynamics. Thus, an accurate description of the flow which includes hydrodynamics…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-14 Abhrajit Bhattacharjee , Sandip K. Chakrabarti , Dipak Debnath

In this work, we demonstrate that the geometry of a spherically symmetric black hole surrounded by a Kiselev anisotropic fluid can be effectively mimicked by an experimental setup as the ones used to investigate some physical phenomena…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-30 Luis C. N. Santos , H. S. Vieira , Franciele M. da Silva , V. B. Bezerra

Analogue Hawking radiation from acoustic horizons is now a well-established phenomenon, both theoretically and experimentally. Its persistence, despite the modified dispersion relations characterising analogue models, has been crucial in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-23 Francesco Del Porro , Stefano Liberati , Marc Schneider

We propose emulation of Hawking radiation (HR) by means of acoustic excitations propagating on top of persistent current in an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) loaded in an annular confining potential. The setting is initially created…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-10-21 Igor Yatsuta , Boris Malomed , Alexander Yakimenko

It has been known that the propagation of sound in fluids can be used to model acoustic spacetimes. These acoustic spacetimes offer analogue models for gravity. We use the Raychaudhuri equation to study the propagation of sound in these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-23 Akshat Pandey