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For a static and spherically symmetric black hole, a photon sphere is composed of circular null geodesics of fixed radius, and plays an important role in observing the black hole. Recently, in an Einstein-Maxwell-scalar model with a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-29 Guangzhou Guo , Peng Wang , Houwen Wu , Haitang Yang

Previous research has focused on establishing lower bounds on the minimum orbital period of black holes. In this work, we explore the complementary question of whether an upper bound exists for the minimum orbital period of black holes. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-15 Yan Peng

Trajectory of a test particle or a photon around a general spherical black hole is studied and bending of light trajectory is investigated. Pseudo-Newtonian gravitational potential describing the gravitational field of the black hole is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 Sumanta Chakraborty , Subenoy Chakraborty

The non-equatorial spherical null geodesics of rotating Kerr black holes are studied analytically. Unlike the extensively studied equatorial circular orbits whose radii are known analytically, no closed-form formula exists in the literature…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-11 Shahar Hod

This paper investigates the bounds on the minimum orbital period for test objects around d-dimensional charged black holes in asymptotically flat spacetimes. We find numerically that the minimum orbital period decreases as the charge of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-07 Yan Peng , Guohua Liu

We consider generic rotating axially symmetric "dirty" (surrounded by matter) black holes. Near-horizon circular equatorial orbits are examined in two different cases of near-extremal (small surface gravity $\kappa $) and exactly extremal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-02 O. B. Zaslavskii

Null and timelike geodesics around a 2+1 black hole are determined. Complete geodesics of both types exist in the rotating black-hole background, but not in the spinless case. Upper and lower bounds for the radial size of the orbits are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 Norman Cruz , Cristián Martínez , Leda Peña

Geodesic motion has significant characteristics of space-time. We calculate the principle Lyapunov exponent (LE), which is the inverse of the instability timescale associated with this geodesics and Kolmogorov-Senai (KS) entropy for our…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-05 Monimala Mondal , Farook Rahaman , Ksh. Newton Singh

We give a full metric describing the gravitational field of a static and axisymmetric thin disk without radial pressure encircling a Schwarzschild black hole. The disk density profiles are astrophysically realistic, stretching from the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-13 Petr Kotlařík , David Kofroň

Massless black holes can be understood as bound states of a (positive mass) extreme a=\sqrt{3} black hole and a singular object with opposite (i.e. negative) mass with vanishing ADM (total) mass but non-vanishing gravitational field.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-24 Tomas Ortin

The semi-review paper studies the null geodesics which appear for black hole solutions in the gravitational $4d$ model with anisotropic fluid. The equations of state for the fluid and solutions itselves depend upon integer parameter $q = 1,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-11 V. D. Ivashchuk , S. V. Bolokhov , F. B. Belissarova , N. Kydyrbay , A. N. Malybayev , G. S. Nurbakova , B. Zheng

Exact formulas relating the radii of the spherical photon orbits to the black hole's rotation parameter and the effective inclination angle of the orbit have been known only for equatorial and polar orbits up to now. Here we provide exact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-18 Aydin Tavlayan , Bayram Tekin

We study the geodesic motion of massless test particles in the background of a magnetic charged black hole spacetime in four dimensions in dilaton-Maxwell gravity. The behaviour of effective potential in view of the different values of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-18 Ravi Shankar Kuniyal , Rashmi Uniyal , Hemwati Nandan , K. D. Purohit

We study the geodesic motion of massless particles in singly rotating black ring spacetimes. We find stable stationary orbits of massless particles in toroidal spiral shape in the case that the thickness parameter of a black ring is less…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-08 Takahisa Igata , Hideki Ishihara , Yohsuke Takamori

We have studied the null geodesics of the Schwarzschild black hole surrounded by quintessence matter. Quintessence matter is a candidate for dark energy. Here, we have done a detailed analysis of the geodesics and exact solutions are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-04 Sharmanthie Fernando

In this paper, we studied the geodesics of timelike and null like particles near an improved Schwarzschild black hole. The lapse function has been plotted and was found that only one horizon is possible. The equation of motion and effective…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-01 Surajit Mandal

We introduce a new method to construct solutions to the constraint equations of general relativity describing binary black holes in quasicircular orbit. Black hole pairs with arbitrary momenta can be constructed with a simple method…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Thomas W. Baumgarte

The galactic black hole is a supermassive black hole located at the center of a galaxy surrounded by a dark matter halo. For the first time, we establish a generic, fully-relativistic formalism to calculate solutions of Einstein's gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-01 Chao Zhang , Guoyang Fu , Chunyu Zhang

In this paper we study the timelike geodesics around a spherically symmetric charged dilaton black hole. The trajectories around the black hole are classified using the effective potential of a free test particle. This qualitative approach…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-07-21 Cristina Blaga

The radius of the circular orbit for the time-like or light-like test particle in a background of general spherically symmetric spacetime is viewed as a characterized quantity for the thermodynamic phase transition of the corresponding…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-03 Ming Zhang , Shan-Zhong Han , Jie Jiang , Wen-Biao Liu