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This work makes the first ever attempt to understand the influence of the black hole background space-time in determining the fundamental properties of the embedded relativistic acoustic geometry. To accomplish such task, the role of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-04 Hung-Yi Pu , Ishita Maiti , Tapas Kumar Das , Hsiang-Kuang Chang

We investigate the geometry of a tidally deformed, rotating black hole and timelike geodesics in its vicinity. Our framework provides a local picture of the structural evolution of a relativistic restricted three-body problem around a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-07 Takuya Katagiri , Vitor Cardoso

We have developed a numerical code to study the evolution of distorted, rotating black holes. This code is used to evolve a new family of black hole initial data sets corresponding to distorted ``Kerr'' holes with a wide range of rotation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Steven R. Brandt , Edward Seidel

A solution of Einstein's vacuum field equation is derived that describes a general boosted Kerr black hole relative to a Lorentz frame at future null infinity. The metric contains five independent parameters -- mass $m$, rotation $\omega$,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-08 Ivano Damião Soares

In this work, we investigate geodesics and black hole shadows in the Kerr-Bertotti-Robinson spacetime. We show that the equations of motion for null geodesics are separable and admit analytical treatment, whereas timelike geodesics are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-12 Xinyu Wang , Yehui Hou , Xi Wan , Minyong Guo , Bin Chen

We consider the black hole dynamical evolution in the framework of a Lorentz-violating spacetime endowed with a Schwarzchild-like momentum-dependent metric. Large deviations from the Hawking-Bekenstein predictions are obtained, depending on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-06-14 S. Esposito , G. Salesi

We describe recent numerical simulations of the merger of a class of equal mass, non-spinning, eccentric binary black hole systems in general relativity. We show that with appropriate fine-tuning of the initial conditions to a region of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Frans Pretorius , Deepak Khurana

We describe early success in the evolution of binary black hole spacetimes with a numerical code based on a generalization of harmonic coordinates. Indications are that with sufficient resolution this scheme is capable of evolving binary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Frans Pretorius

We study the geodesic equation in the space-time of a Kerr black hole pierced by an infinitely thin cosmic string and give the complete set of analytical solutions of this equation for massive and massless particles in terms of Mino time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-21 Eva Hackmann , Betti Hartmann , Claus Laemmerzahl , Parinya Sirimachan

Classical GR governs the evolution of black holes for a long time, but at some exponentially large time it must break down. The breakdown, and what comes after it, is not well understood. In this paper I'll discuss the problem using…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-03 Leonard Susskind

The null geodesics of a Schwarzschild black hole are studied from a dynamical systems perspective. Written in terms of Kerr-Schild coordinates, the null geodesic equation takes on the simple form of a particle moving under the influence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-27 Edward Belbruno , Frans Pretorius

We consider behavior of equatorial geodesics with the negative energy in the ergoregion of a generic rotating "dirty" (surrounded by matter) black hole. It is shown that under very simple and generic conditions on the metric coefficients,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-27 O. B. Zaslavskii

Rotating black holes are prevalent in astrophysical observations, and a Kerr-like solution that incorporates quantum gravity effects is essential for constructing realistic models. In this work, we analyze the geodesic motion of massive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-28 Zhiyang Guo , Chen Lan , Yan Liu

In this work, we explore the properties of timelike geodesic for particles with zero energy. We found some similarities between geodesic motion in Schwarzschild black hole and timelike geodesics for particles with zero energy. We show, that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-08 Vitalii Vertogradov , Leonid Shleiger

Observations have found black holes spanning ten orders of magnitude in mass across most of cosmic history. The Kerr black hole solution is however provisional as its behavior at infinity is incompatible with an expanding universe. Black…

In the present work, geodesic trajectories in Kerr-de Sitter geometry is analyzed. From the mathematical solution of Lagrangian formalism appropriate to motions in the equatorial plane (for which 'theta' = 0 and 'theta' = (constant)= pi/2)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-09-09 P. C. Poudel , U. Khanal

In this article, we explore the kinematics of timelike geodesic congruences in warped five dimensional bulk spacetimes, with and without thick or thin branes. Beginning with geodesic flows in the Randall--Sundrum AdS (Anti de Sitter)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-26 Suman Ghosh , Anirvan Dasgupta , Sayan Kar

We investigate timelike geodesics in asymptotically flat regular black holes supported by a phantom scalar field characterized by a scalar charge $A$. This parameter removes the central singularity and continuously deforms the Schwarzschild…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-23 P. A. González , Marco Olivares , Eleftherios Papantonopoulos , Yerko Vásquez

A numerical study of the evolution of a massless scalar field in the background of rotating black holes is presented. First, solutions to the wave equation are obtained for slowly rotating black holes. In this approximation, the background…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-30 W. Krivan , P. Laguna , P. Papadopoulos

This study is purposed to derive the equation of motion for geodesics in vicinity of spacetime of a (2 + 1)-dimensional charged BTZ black hole. In this paper, we solve geodesics for both massive and massless particles in terms of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-01 Saheb Soroushfar , Reza Saffari , Afsaneh Jafari