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A brief introduction is given to rotating black holes in more than four spacetime dimensions.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Gary T. Horowitz

We provide an invariant characterization of the physical properties of the Kerr spacetime. We introduce two dimensionless invariants, constructed out of some known curvature invariants, that act as detectors for the event horizon and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-14 Majd Abdelqader , Kayll Lake

These notes, based on lectures given at the summer school on Asymptotic Analysis in General Relativity, collect material on the Einstein equations, the geometry of black hole spacetimes, and the analysis of fields on black hole backgrounds.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-13 Lars Andersson , Thomas Bäckdahl , Pieter Blue

We analyse properties of general stationary and axisymmetric spacetimes, with a particular focus on circularity -- an accidental symmetry enjoyed by the Kerr metric, and therefore widely assumed when searching for rotating black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-06 Eugeny Babichev , Jacopo Mazza

The Kerr metric is one of the most important solutions to Einstein's field equations, describing the gravitational field outside a rotating black hole. We thoroughly analyze the curvature scalar invariants to study the Kerr spacetime by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-10-10 Majd Abdelqader , Kayll Lake

In general relativity, the Kerr metric uniquely represents the geometry surrounding an isolated, rotating black hole. An identification of significant non-Kerr features in some astrophysical source would then provide a `smoking-gun' for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-07 Arthur G Suvorov

The Kerr spacetime is one of the most widely known solutions to Einstein's vacuum field equations and is commonly used to describe a black hole with mass $m$ and spin $a$. Astrophysical observations in the electromagnetic spectrum as well…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-06 Torben C. Frost

We investigate the Kerr black hole defined on canonically deformed space-time. Particulary, we find the corresponding event horizon, the ergosphere, the temperature and the entropy of such deformed object.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-11 Marcin Daszkiewicz , Cezary J. Walczyk

This is the first part in a series of two papers, where we consider a specific microscopic model of spacetime. In our model Planck size quantum black holes are taken to be the fundamental building blocks of space and time. Spacetime is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-21 J. Makela

This work is an extensive literature review focusing on a few of the important topics in the large-scale structure of spacetime. The work is a Bachelor's thesis submitted at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Leipzig. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-18 Rohan Kulkarni

The Kerr-Newman metric is the unique vacuum solution of the General Relativistic field equations, in which any singularities or spacetime pathologies are hidden behind horizons. They are believed to describe the spacetimes of massive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-21 Dimitrios Psaltis

Different proposals for regular rotating black hole spacetimes have appeared recently in the literature. However, a rigorous analysis and proof of the regularity of this kind of spacetimes is still lacking. In this note we analyze rotating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-13 Ramon Torres , Francesc Fayos

We analyse a rotating regular black hole with asymptotically Minkowski core. This Kerr-like geometry possesses the full "Killing tower" of nontrivial Killing tensor, Killing-Yano tensor, and principal tensor. The Hamilton-Jacobi equation,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-10 Alex Simpson , Matt Visser

As a consequence of Birkhoff's theorem, the exterior gravitational field of a spherically symmetric star or black hole is always given by the Schwarzschild metric. In contrast, the exterior gravitational field of a rotating (axisymmetric)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-22 R. Meinel

Physical interpretation of some stationary and non-stationary regions of the spinning C-metric is presented. They represent different spacetime regions of a uniformly accelerated Kerr black hole. Stability of geodesics corresponding to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-09 V. Pravda , A. Pravdova

It is now widely accepted that the universe as we understand it is accelerating in expansion and fits the de Sitter model rather well. As such, a realistic assumption of black holes must place them on a de Sitter background and not…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-04 Sarp Akcay , Richard Matzner

We compute the length and timescales associated with resonant orbits in the Kerr Metric for all orbital and spin parameters. Resonance induced effects are potentially observable when the Event Horizon telescope resolves the inner structure…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-05 Jeandrew Brink , Marisa Geyer , Tanja Hinderer

These notes introduce the fundamentals of black hole geometry, the thermality of the vacuum, and the Hawking effect, in spacetime and its analogues. Stimulated emission of Hawking radiation, the trans-Planckian question, short wavelength…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-12 Ted Jacobson

Our understanding of space and time is probed to its depths by black holes. These objects, which appear as a natural consequence of general relativity, provide a powerful analytical tool able to examine macroscopic and microscopic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Jean-Pierre Luminet

We consider black holes generically sourced by quantum matter described by regular wavefunctions. This allows for integrable effective energy densities and the removal of Cauchy horizons in spherically symmetric configurations. Moreover, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-31 Roberto Casadio , Andrea Giusti , Jorge Ovalle
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