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We prove that if S is a time-oriented null hypersurface of a Lorentzian n-manifold (M, g), the causal world-lines, which intersect transversally S and are time-oriented in a compatible way, cross the hypersurface all in the same direction,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-24 Cristina Giannotti , Andrea Spiro

We investigate the effect of superradiance shielding for the analogue rotating black holes simulated by optical vortices by calculating the radial motion of massless particles in such spacetime background. We add the conditions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-28 Hongbin Zhang , Baocheng Zhang

In this work, we derive rigorous and universal bounds on the geometric characteristics of black holes in asymptotically flat spacetimes under assumptions that weak energy condition is satisfied. We prove that the event horizon radius, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-03 Vitalii Vertogradov

We construct the spacetime in the vicinity of a general isolated, rotating, charged black hole. The black hole is modeled as a weakly isolated horizon, and we use the characteristic initial value formulation of the Einstein equations with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-04 Badri Krishnan

The purpose of this work is to construct asymptotically flat, time symmetric initial data with an apparent horizon of prescribed intrinsic and extrinsic geometry. To do this, we use the parabolic partial differential equation for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-06-15 Brian Smith

The positive mass theorem is one of the fundamental results in general relativity. It states that, assuming the dominant energy condition, the total mass of an asymptotically flat spacetime is non-negative. The Penrose inequality provides a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-10-25 Po-Ning Chen

We introduce a generalized version of the Jang equation, designed for the general case of the Penrose Inequality in the setting of an asymptotically flat space-like hypersurface of a spacetime satisfying the dominat energy condition. The…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-01-17 Hubert L. Bray , Marcus A. Khuri

When Hawking radiation from a rotating or non-rotating black hole becomes sufficiently intense, its own stress energy can no longer be treated as a perturbation on a fixed background. In this regime the outgoing flux may generate an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-03 Steven J. Silverman

Various higher-dimensional black holes have been shown to be unstable by studying linearized gravitational perturbations. A simpler method for demonstrating instability is to find initial data that describes a small perturbation of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 Pau Figueras , Keiju Murata , Harvey S. Reall

The Riemannian Penrose inequality is a fundamental result in mathematical relativity. It has been a long-standing conjecture of G. Huisken that an analogous result should hold in the context of extrinsic geometry. In this paper, we resolve…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Michael Eichmair , Thomas Koerber

Black holes in Lorentz-violating theories have been claimed to violate the second law of thermodynamics by perpetual motion energy extraction. We revisit this question for a Penrose splitting process in a spherically symmetric setting with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-25 Robert Benkel , Jishnu Bhattacharyya , Jorma Louko , David Mattingly , Thomas P. Sotiriou

Properties of particles in Kerr metric are compared with properties of particles in rotating coordinates in Minkowski space-time. It is shown that particles with negative and zero energies existing in the ergosphere of the rotating black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-07-04 A. A. Grib , Yu. V. Pavlov

In this paper we revisit Brill's proof of positive mass for three-dimensional, time-symmetric, axisymmetric initial data and generalise his argument in various directions. In 3+1 dimensions, we include an apparent horizon in the initial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-07 G. W. Gibbons , G. Holzegel

Penrose's weak cosmic censorship conjecture asserts that spacetime singularities produced by gravitational collapse are generically hidden behind event horizons, thus preventing them from causally influencing distant observers and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-16 Giovanni Caridi , Fabrizio Corelli , Paolo Pani

Working in a semi-classical setting, we consider solutions of the Einstein equations that exhibit light trapping in finite time according to distant observers. In spherical symmetry, we construct near-horizon quantities from the assumption…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-14 Pravin K. Dahal , Fil Simovic , Ioannis Soranidis , Daniel R. Terno

We consider the background of a rotating axially symmetric black hole. Let particle 0 decay to two fragments 1 and 2 in the direction parallel to that of particle 0. It is shown that if decay occurs inside the ergoregion, both particles 1…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-13 O. B. Zaslavskii

This paper treats boundary conditions on black hole horizons for the full 3+1D Einstein equations. Following a number of authors, the apparent horizon is employed as the inner boundary on a space slice. It is emphasized that a further…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-25 Douglas M. Eardley

The Penrose strong cosmic censorship conjecture asserts that Cauchy horizons inside dynamically formed black holes are unstable to remnant matter fields that fall into the black holes. The physical importance of this conjecture stems from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-03 Shahar Hod

We construct a sort of regular black holes with a sub-Planckian Kretschmann scalar curvature. The metric of this sort of regular black holes is characterized by an exponentially suppressing gravity potential as well as an asymptotically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-02 Yi Ling , Meng-He Wu

By considering suitable axially symmetric slices on the Kruskal spacetime, we construct counterexamples to a recent version of the Penrose inequality in terms of so-called generalized apparent horizons.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-14 Alberto Carrasco , Marc Mars