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This paper presents a study of quasi-steady spherical accretion in the early Universe, before the formation of the first stars and galaxies. The main motivation is to derive the basic formulas that will be used in a companion paper to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-05 Massimo Ricotti

An approach is presented to address singularities in general relativity using a complex Riemannian spacetime extension. We demonstrate how this method can be applied to both black hole and cosmological singularities, specifically focusing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-14 John W. Moffat

A new class of exact spacetimes in Einstein's gravity, which are Kerr black holes immersed in an external magnetic (or electric) field that is asymptotically uniform and oriented along the rotational axis, is presented. These are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-04 Jiri Podolsky , Hryhorii Ovcharenko

Black hole (BH) solutions endowed with nontrivial scalar or matter fields - commonly known as hairy black holes - have attracted significant interest in recent years. They admit extra parameters beyond mass, charge, and angular momentum,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-17 Anirban Dasgupta , Supragyan Priyadarshinee , Indrani Banerjee , Subhash Mahapatra

A Regge--Wheeler analysis is performed for a novel black hole mimicker `the regular black hole with asymptotically Minkowski core', followed by an approximation of the permitted quasi-normal modes for propagating waveforms. A first-order…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-06 Alex Simpson

We present the results of our studies on accretion disks in the proximity of astrophysical black holes. These disks can be of varying degrees of opacity, geometrical shapes, sizes, and volumes. The central compact object is a Schwarzschild…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-27 Leela Elpida Koutsantoniou

In this paper, we continue our study of the motion of spinning test bodies orbiting Kerr black holes. Non-spinning test bodies follow geodesics of the spacetime in which they move. A test body's spin couples to the curvature of that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-13 Lisa V. Drummond , Scott A. Hughes

We determine the class of axisymmetric and asymptotically flat black-hole spacetimes for which the test Klein-Gordon and Hamilton-Jacobi equations allow for the separation of variables. The known Kerr, Kerr-Newman, Kerr-Sen and some other…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-27 R. A. Konoplya , Z. Stuchlík , A. Zhidenko

This paper utilizes the {\it Black Hole Vision} smartphone application to catalyze a pedagogical shift in General Relativity education through the quantitative analysis of simulated black hole imaging. Presented here for the Schwarzschild…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-22 Lior M. Burko

This work aims to explore the gravitational consequences of a recently proposed black hole solution presented in the literature [Phys. Dark Univ. 50 (2025) 102061]. We initiate our analyzes by taking into account the horizon structure,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-18 A. A. Araújo Filho , N. Heidari , Iarley P. Lobo

Black holes are probably among the most fascinating objects populating our universe. Their characteristic features found within general relativity, encompassing spacetime singularities, event horizons, and black hole thermodynamics, provide…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Benjamin Koch , Frank Saueressig

We analyze motion of massless and massive particles around black holes immersed in an asymptotically uniform magnetic field and surrounded by some mechanical structure, which provides the magnetic field. The space-time is described by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 R. A. Konoplya

Recently, the gravitational scattering of two black holes (BHs) treated at the leading order in the weak-field, or post-Minkowskian (PM), approximation to General Relativity has been shown to map bijectively onto a simpler effectively…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-11 Justin Vines , Jan Steinhoff , Alessandra Buonanno

A class of nonstationary spacetimes is obtained by means of a conformal transformation of the Schwarzschild metric, where the conformal factor $a(t)$ is an arbitrary function of the time coordinate only. We investigate several situations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-05 Marina M. C. Mello , Alan Maciel , Vilson T. Zanchin

Black holes are perhaps the most strange and fascinating objects known to exist in the universe. Our understanding of space and time is pushed to its limits by the extreme conditions found in these objects. They can be used as natural…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-05-15 Gustavo E. Romero

Observations of the black hole shadow of supermassive black holes, such as Sagittarius A* at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, allow us to study the properties of black holes and the nature of strong-field gravity. According to the Kerr…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-14 Dimitry Ayzenberg , Nicolas Yunes

Many Hamiltonian problems in the Solar System are separable or separate into two analytically solvable parts, and thus give a great chance to the development and application of explicit symplectic integrators based on operator splitting and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-07 Xin Wu , Ying Wang , Wei Sun , Fu-Yao Liu , Wen-Biao Han

We present a multipolar analysis of the gravitational recoil computed in recent numerical simulations of binary black hole (BH) coalescence, for both unequal masses and non-zero, non-precessing spins. We show that multipole moments up to…

In this paper we consider generalized uncertainty principle (GUP) effects in higher dimensional black hole spacetimes via a nonlocal gravity approach. We study three possible modifications of momentum space measure emerging from GUP,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-10 Marco Knipfer , Sven Köppel , Jonas Mureika , Piero Nicolini

We have obtained the Generalized Uncertainty Principle (GUP) corrected de Sitter and anti-de Sitter black hole solutions in bumblebee gravity with a topological defect. We have calculated the scalar, electromagnetic and gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-06 Dhruba Jyoti Gogoi , Umananda Dev Goswami