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Exact solutions describing rotating black holes can offer important tests for alternative theories of gravity, motivated by the dark energy and dark matter problems. We present an analytic rotating black hole solution for a class of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-10 Francesco Filippini , Gianmassimo Tasinato

We study the motion of a test particle in a stationary, axially and reflection symmetric spacetime of a central compact object, as affected by interaction with a test radiation field of the same symmetries. Considering the radiation flux…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 Donato Bini , Andrea Geralico , Robert T. Jantzen , Oldrich Semerák , Luigi Stella

In this work, we study circular motions of charged particles and their polarized images around the Kerr black hole immersed in a weak magnetic field. We pay special attention to the case that both the magnetic field and the charge-to-mass…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-19 Tsai-Chen Lee , Zezhou Hu , Minyong Guo , Bin Chen

We describe the trajectories of circular orbits of spinless and spinning test particles around of rotating bodies in equatorial and non-equatorial planes via the Mathisson-Papapetrou-Dixon equations which include the Ricci rotation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-12 Nelson Velandia SJ , Alfonso Leyva , Javier Alexander Cano-Arango

In this chapter, we study special photon orbits defined by means of Killing vectors and present a framework based on the properties of such null orbits. For concreteness, we restrict ourselves to the case of axially symmetric spacetimes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-13 Daniela Pugliese , Hernando Quevedo

The Rayleigh criterion is used to study the stability of circular orbits of particles moving around static black holes surrounded by different axially symmetric structures with reflection symmetry, like disks, rings and halos. We consider…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Patricio. S. Letelier

We show the analysis of a thin accretion disk around a static and spherically symmetric black hole in dRGT massive gravity. We present the accretion disk analysis in a gravitational theory with a nonzero graviton mass. Also, we study the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-11 Sobhan Kazempour , Yuan-Chuan Zou , Amin Rezaei Akbarieh

The spacetime geometry on the equatorial slice through a Kerr black hole is formally equivalent to the geometry felt by phonons entrained in a rotating fluid vortex. We analyse this situation in some detail: First, we find the most general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Matt Visser , Silke Weinfurtner

A class of exact conformastatic solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell field equations is presented in which the gravitational and electromagnetic potentials are completely determined by a harmonic function only. The motion of test particles is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-20 Antonio C. Gutiérrez-Piñeres , Abraão J. S. Capistrano

Assessing the stability of higher-dimensional rotating black holes requires a study of linearized gravitational perturbations around such backgrounds. We study perturbations of Myers-Perry black holes with equal angular momenta in an odd…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-05-29 Hari K. Kunduri , James Lucietti , Harvey S. Reall

A general study of the stability of equatorial circular orbits in static axially symmetric gravitating systems is presented. Important circular geodesics as the marginally stable orbit, the marginally bounded orbit and the photon orbit are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-05 Guillermo A. González , Framsol López-Suspes

We investigate the motion of a massive particle around a spherically symmetric black hole surrounded by a stationary and radial inflow of perfect fluid. The background spacetime is modelled as a spherically symmetric solution to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-22 Ariadna Uxue Palomino Ylla , Yasutaka Koga , Chul-Moon Yoo

The motion of a spinning particle in the exterior of a Kerr-Newman black hole is studied. The dynamics is governed by the Mathisson-Papapetrou equations in the pole-dipole approximation, including the spin-curvature coupling to leading…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-05 Yi-Ping Chen , Tien Hsieh , Da-Shin Lee

We consider the motion of massive and massless particles in a five-dimensional spacetime with a compactified extra-dimensional space where a black hole is localized, i.e., a caged black hole spacetime. We show the existence of circular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-12 Takahisa Igata , Shinya Tomizawa

We present a rotating regular black hole whose inner horizon has zero surface gravity for any value of the spin parameter, and is therefore stable against mass inflation. Our metric is built by combining two successful strategies for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-08 Edgardo Franzin , Stefano Liberati , Jacopo Mazza , Vania Vellucci

We study non-geodesic orbits of test particles endowed with a structure, assuming the Schwarzschild spacetime as background. We develop a formalism which allows one to recognize the geometrical characterization of those orbits in terms of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 Donato Bini , Fernando de Felice , Andrea Geralico

In this paper we study the effective gravitational potential of Schwarzschild, Kerr, Reissner-Nordstr\"om and Kerr-Newman black holes with the relativistic corrections to evaluate the circular orbits and the Innermost Stable Circular Orbits…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-13 Eahsaan Nazir Najar , Raja Nisar Ali , Yasmeena Mushtaq , Imtiyaz Ahmad Bhat

Analyzing test particles falling into a Kerr black hole, we study gravitational waves in Brans-Dicke theory of gravity. First we consider a test particle plunging with a constant azimuthal angle into a rotating black hole and calculate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Motoyuki Saijo , Hisa-aki Shinkai , Kei-ichi Maeda

A set of features of the renormalization group improved Kerr spacetime taking into account the running of Newton's constant is presented. This set includes: Behavior of the critical surfaces and corrections to the mass and angular momentum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Reuter , E. Tuiran

There exists in literature an increasing interest in the study of mass distributions surrounding black holes as describing dark matter halo in spiral galaxies. Motivated by this interest, we study a very recent new class of rotating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-22 Stefano Viaggiu