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The motion of charged test-particles in the gravitational field of a rotating and electromagnetically charged black hole as described by the Kerr-Newman metric is considered. We completely classify the colatitudinal and radial motion on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-28 Eva Hackmann , Hongxiao Xu

This paper systematically revisits the critical orbits of test particles moving in various black hole backgrounds, including the Schwarzschild, Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m, Kerr, and Kerr-Newman spacetimes. We identify the critical orbit cases…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-11 Ping Li , Jun Cheng , Jiang-he Yang

The motion of classical spinning test particles in the equatorial plane of a Kerr black hole is considered for the case where the particle spin is perpendicular to the equatorial plane. We review some results of our recent research of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-16 O. Yu. Tsupko , G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan , P. I. Jefremov

We are motivated by the recently reported dynamical evidence of stars with short orbital periods moving around the center of the Milky Way and the corresponding hypothesis about the existence of a supermassive black hole hosted at its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-26 Alfredo Herrera-Aguilar , Ulises Nucamendi

We report exotic orbital phenomena of spinning test particles orbiting around a Kerr black hole, i.e., some orbits of spinning particles are asymmetrical about the equatorial plane. When a nonspinning test particle orbits around a Kerr…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-07 Wen-Biao Han , Shu-Cheng Yang

The dynamics of spinning test bodies, moving in rotating black hole (Kerr, Bardeen-like and Hayward-like) spacetimes, are investigated. In Kerr spacetime, all the spherical, zoom-whirl and unbound orbits are considered numerically. Along…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-10 Balázs Mikóczi , Zoltán Keresztes

We consider the motion of a spinning relativistic particle in external electromagnetic and gravitational fields, to first order in the external field, but to an arbitrary order in spin. The correct account for the spin influence on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 I. B. Khriplovich , A. A. Pomeransky

The properties of modified Hayward black hole space-time can be investigated through analyzing the particle geodesics. By means of a detailed analysis of the corresponding effective potentials for a massive particle, we find all possible…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-16 Jian-Ping Hu , Li-Li Shi , Yu Zhang , Peng-Fei Duan

The notion of non-equatorial spherical photon orbits is among the very special properties of the Kerr spacetime of rotating black holes and is one that leaves a clear mark on the electromagnetic and gravitational wave signature of these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-15 George Pappas , Kostas Glampedakis

We mainly focus on the effects of small changes of parameters on the dynamics of charged particles around the Kerr black hole surrounded by an external magnetic field, which can be considered as a tidal environment. The radial motions of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-10 Xin Sun , Xin Wu , Yu Wang , Chen Deng , Baorong Liu , Enwei Liang

We establish a new relation between classical observables for scattering and bound orbits of a massive probe particle in a Kerr background. We find an exact representation of the Hamilton-Jacobi action in terms of the conserved charges…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-02 Riccardo Gonzo , Canxin Shi

We present stationary and axially-symmetric black hole solutions to the Einstein field equations sourced by an anisotropic fluid, describing rotating black holes embedded in astrophysical environments. We compute their physical properties,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-19 Pedro G. S. Fernandes , Vitor Cardoso

We study motion of particles and light in a space-time of a 5-dimensional rotating black hole. We demonstrate that the Myers-Perry metric describing such a black hole in addition to three Killing vectors possesses also a Killing tensor. As…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Valeri Frolov , Dejan Stojkovic

The Hamiltonian formulation with action-angle variables is very useful when considering the motion of particles undergoing a self-force reaction due to gravitational wave emission. Using the proper time as a parameter along the trajectory…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-31 Takafumi Kakehi , Takahiro Tanaka

In the curved spacetime background, the trajectory of a spinning test particle will deviate from the geodesic. Using the effective potential method, we study the motion of a spinning test particle on the equatorial plane of a polymer black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-05 Ke Chen , Shao-Wen Wei

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

We study separability of the Hamilton-Jacobi and massive Klein-Gordon equations in the general Myers-Perry black hole background in all dimensions. Complete separation of both equations is carried out in cases when there are two sets of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Muraari Vasudevan , Kory A. Stevens , Don N. Page

In general relativity, the motion of an extended body moving in a given spacetime can be described by a particle on a (generally non-geodesic) worldline. In first approximation, this worldline is a geodesic of the underlying spacetime, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-05 Paul Ramond

The motion of a stellar compact object around a supermassive black hole can be approximated by the motion of a spinning test particle. The equations of motion describing such systems are in general non-integrable, and therefore, chaotic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-06 Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos

This paper gives a survey of wave dynamics in the Kerr space-time geometry, the mathematical model of a rotating black hole in equilibrium. After a brief introduction to the Kerr metric, we review the separability properties of linear wave…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-07-25 Felix Finster , Niky Kamran , Joel Smoller , Shing-Tung Yau