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Extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs), as a core target for future space-based gravitational wave detection, offer crucial observational grounds for testing strong-field gravitational theories and classifying black holes through their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-10 Xiuqin He , Zhaoyi Xu , Meirong Tang

We employ the Poincar\'{e} section, fast Lyapunov indicator, recurrence analysis, bifurcation diagram and basins of attraction to investigate the dynamical behaviors of the motion of particles around a new dyonic Kerr-Newman black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-12 Deshui Cao , Lina Zhang , Songbai Chen , Qiyuan Pan , Jiliang Jing

The most general stationary black-hole solution of Einstein-Maxwell theory in vacuum is the Kerr-Newman metric, specified by three parameters: mass M, spin J and charge Q. Within classical general relativity, the most important and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-06-19 Paolo Pani , Emanuele Berti , Leonardo Gualtieri

We study stability of a circular orbit of a spinning test particle in a Kerr spacetime. We find that some of the circular orbits become unstable in the direction perpendicular to the equatorial plane, although the orbits are still stable in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Shingo Suzuki , Kei-ichi Maeda

The existence of stable bound orbits of test particles is one of the most characteristic properties in black hole spacetimes. In higher-dimensional black holes, due to the dimensionality of gravity, there is no stable bound orbit balanced…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-07-08 Takahisa Igata

The characteristics of the resonant disturbing function for an asteroid perturbed by a planet in circular orbit are discussed. The location of the libration centers and their dependence with the orbital elements of the resonant orbit are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-08-16 Tabare Gallardo

The orbital motion is derived for a non-spinning test-mass in the relativistic, gravitational field of a rotationally deformed body not restricted to the equatorial plane or spherical orbit. The gravitational field of the central body is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-15 Steven Hergt , Abhay Shah , Gerhard Schäfer

The detection of gravitational waves from extreme-mass-ratio inspirals with upcoming space-borne detectors will allow for unprecedented tests of general relativity in the strong-field regime. Aside from assessing whether black holes are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-08 Kyriakos Destounis , Kostas D. Kokkotas

We compute a series of three-dimensional general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of accretion flows in the Kerr metric to investigate the properties of the unbound outflows that result. The overall strength of these outflows…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 John F. Hawley , Julian H. Krolik

We numerically solve the Teukolsky equation in the time domain to obtain the gravitational-wave emission of a small mass inspiraling and plunging into the equatorial plane of a Kerr black hole. We account for the dissipation of orbital…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-22 Andrea Taracchini , Alessandra Buonanno , Gaurav Khanna , Scott A. Hughes

The instability of rotating Kerr black holes due to massive scalar perturbations is investigated. It is well known that a bosonic field impinging on a Kerr black hole can be amplified as it scatters off the hole. This superradiant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 Shahar Hod

The general relativistic Poynting-Robertson effect is a dissipative and non-linear dynamical system obtained by perturbing through radiation processes the geodesic motion of test particles orbiting around a spinning compact object,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-10 Vittorio De Falco , William Borrelli

We study analytically a black-hole-ring system which is composed of a stationary axisymmetric ring of particles in orbit around a perturbed Kerr black hole of mass $M$. In particular, we calculate the shift in the orbital frequency of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 Shahar Hod

We present analytical solutions describing a family of both inwardly and outwardly spiralling orbits in the Kerr spacetime. The solutions are exact, and remarkable for their simplicity. These orbits all have the angular momentum and energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-12 Andrew Mummery , Steven Balbus

In this work, we investigate bound periodic orbits of timelike particles in the spacetime of dyonic black holes arising from quasi-topological electromagnetic theory. By varying the coupling parameter $\alpha_1$, the corresponding black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-29 Chao-Hui Wang , Yu-Peng Zhang , Tao Zhu , Shao-Wen Wei

Periodic orbits exhibiting zoom-whirl behavior have become attractive topics for studying particle dynamics and gravitational wave emission in extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs). This study systematically investigates periodic orbits…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-05 Guo-He Li , Chen-Kai Qiao , Jun Tao

We consider a stationary metric immersed in a uniform magnetic field and determine general expressions for the epicyclic frequencies of charged particles. Applications to the Kerr--Newman black hole is reach of physical consequences and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-29 Mustapha Azreg-Aïnou

According to the no-hair theorem, astrophysical black holes are uniquely described by the Kerr metric. In order to test this theorem with observations in either the electromagnetic or gravitational-wave spectra, several Kerr-like spacetimes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-15 Tim Johannsen

We provide a fully analytical approach to calculate the nonlinearities of the gravitational waves in the ringdown of a Kerr black hole in the eikonal limit. The corresponding quasi-normal modes are associated to the orbits of a closed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-03 D. Perrone , A. Kehagias , A. Riotto

We investigate the dynamics of the Papapetrou equations in Kerr spacetime. These equations provide a model for the motion of a relativistic spinning test particle orbiting a rotating (Kerr) black hole. We perform a thorough parameter space…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Michael D. Hartl