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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 is motivated by the non-linear stability problem for the expanding region of Kerr de Sitter cosmologies in the context of Einstein's equations with positive cosmological constant. We show that under dynamically realistic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-03 Volker Schlue

In this work, we investigate a universal upper bound on the radius of the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCOs) for massive particles in static, spherically symmetric, and asymptotically flat black hole spacetimes. By analyzing the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-20 Yiting Cen , Yong Song

The existence and stability of circular orbits (CO) in static and spherically symmetric (SSS) spacetime are important because of their practical and potential usefulness. In this paper, using the fixed point method, we first prove a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-14 Junji Jia , Jiawei Liu , Xionghui Liu , Zhongyou Mo , Xiankai Pang , Yaoguang Wang , Nan Yang

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

In this article we study the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) of electrically charged particles in the electrically charged Reissner-Nordstr\"om spacetime, the Kerr-Newman spacetime and the Kerr-Sen spacetime. We find that the radius…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-20 Kris Schroven , Saskia Grunau

We study the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) of a test particle around rapidly rotating neutron stars. Based on 12 different nuclear-matter equations of state (EOS), we find numerically two approximately EOS-insensitive universal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-25 Shun-Sun Luk , Lap-Ming Lin

In this paper we investigate the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) for a classical spinning test particle in the background of Kerr-Newman black hole. It is shown that the orbit of the spinning particle is related to the spin of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-02 Yu-Peng Zhang , Shao-Wen Wei , Wen-Di Guo , Tao-Tao Sui , Yu-Xiao Liu

We investigate in detail the circular motion of test particles on the equatorial plane of the ergoregion in the Kerr spacetime. We consider all the regions where circular motion is allowed, and we analyze the stability properties and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-14 D. Pugliese , H. Quevedo

Using minimalist assumptions we develop a natural functional decomposition for the spacetime metric, and explicit tractable formulae for the surface gravities, in arbitrary stationary circular (PT symmetric) axisymmetric spacetimes. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-30 Joshua Baines , Matt Visser

We study the inner-most stable circular orbit(ISCO) of Kerr black hole in MOdified gravity(Kerr-MOG black hole) which is one of the exact solution of the field equation of modified gravity in strong gravity regime. Kerr-MOG black hole is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-25 Hyun-Chul Lee , Yong-Jin Han

In this paper we study geodesic motion around a distorted Schwarzschild black hole. We consider both timelike and null geodesics which are confined to the black hole's equatorial plane. Such geodesics generically exist if the distortion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-23 Andrey A. Shoom , Cole Walsh , Ivan Booth

We analyse properties of general stationary and axisymmetric spacetimes, with a particular focus on circularity -- an accidental symmetry enjoyed by the Kerr metric, and therefore widely assumed when searching for rotating black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-06 Eugeny Babichev , Jacopo Mazza

We investigate the photon sphere and the extremal stable circular orbit (ESCO) for massive particles over a recently proposed regular black holes with sub-Planckian curvature and Minkowskian core. We derive the effective potential for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-19 Wei Zeng , Yi Ling , Qing-Quan Jiang

Ever since its discovery by Roy Kerr in 1963, the geometry around rotating, electrostatically-neutral black holes, otherwise known as Kerr black holes, has significantly contributed to theoretical developments in the fields of general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-01 Tongyu Zhang , Moe Vali

This paper explores properties of the instantaneous ergo surface of a Kerr black hole. The surface area is evaluated in closed form. In terms of the mass ($m$) and angular velocity ($a$), to second order in $a$, the area of the ergo surface…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Nicos Pelavas , Nicholas Neary , Kayll Lake

We analyze the stationary, uncharged, rotating, vacuum solution to Weyl conformal gravity. We elucidate the causal and ergoregion structure of the spacetimes found in the parameter space of the metric for positive mass. These are then…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-29 Miguel Yulo Asuncion , Keith Horne , Reinosuke Kusano , Martin Dominik

We show that, within a broad stationary-axisymmetric class, Kerr-type separability and hidden symmetry arise as a local consequence of the Einstein equations. Without assuming separability, algebraic speciality, Killing--Yano symmetry, or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-29 Hyeong-Chan Kim

We construct perturbations of Minkowski spacetime in general relativity, when given initial data that decays inverse polynomially to initial data of a Kerr spacetime towards spacelike infinity. We show that the perturbations admit a regular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-03 Andrea Nützi

Forces defined in the framework of optical reference geometry are introduced in the case of stationary and axially symmetric Kerr black-hole and naked-singularity spacetimes with a repulsive cosmological constant. Properties of the forces…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Jiri Kovar , Zdenek Stuchlik