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The Hairy Kerr black hole is a novel black hole solution that depicts a rotating space-time encompassed by an axisymmetric fluid. It has significant observational importance and is an excellent candidate for an astrophysical black hole. Our…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-22 Cheng Liu , Hoongwah Siew , Tao Zhu , Qiang Wu , Yuanyuan Zhao , Haiguang Xu

We explain in detail how to calculate the gravitational mass and angular momentum multipoles of the most general non-extremal four-dimensional black hole with four magnetic and four electric charges. We also calculate these multipoles for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-31 Iosif Bena , Daniel R. Mayerson

We uniquely and explicitly reconstruct the instantaneous intrinsic metric of the Kerr-Newman Event Horizon from the spectrum of its Laplacian. In the process we find that the angular momentum parameter, radius, area; and in the uncharged…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin Engman , Ricardo Cordero Soto

We determine the metric of a Kerr black hole subject to external tidal fields using metric reconstruction techniques. Working within the Newman-Penrose formalism, we solve the Teukolsky master equation for static, quadrupolar modes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-04 Marta Cocco , Gianluca Grignani , Troels Harmark , Marta Orselli , David Pereñiguez , Maarten van de Meent

The deviations of non-linear perturbations of black holes from the linear case are important in the context of ringdown signals with large signal-to-noise ratio. To facilitate a comparison between the two we derive several results of linear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-15 Maitraya K Bhattacharyya , David Hilditch , K Rajesh Nayak , Hannes R. Rüter , Bernd Bruegmann

We present a new solution in Einstein's General Relativity representing a Schwarzschild black hole immersed in a rotating universe. Such a solution is constructed analytically by means of the last unexplored Lie point symmetry of the Ernst…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-08 Marco Astorino , Riccardo Martelli , Adriano Viganò

A solution of Einstein's vacuum field equations that describes a boosted Kerr black hole relative to an asymptotic Lorentz frame at the future null infinity is derived. The solution has three parameters (mass, rotation and boost) and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-26 Ivano Damião Soares

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

The future LISA detector will constitute the prime instrument for high-precision gravitational wave observations.LISA is expected to provide information for the properties of spacetime in the vicinity of massive black holes which reside in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Kostas Glampedakis , Stanislav Babak

General relativity predicts that the Kerr black hole develops qualitatively new and surprising features in the limit of maximal spin. Most strikingly, the region of spacetime near the event horizon stretches into an infinitely long throat…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-17 Daniel Kapec , Alexandru Lupsasca

We consider the behavior of the analogue of the Lemaitre time when a particle approaches the horizon of a rotating black hole. For the Kerr metric, the aforementioned time coincides with the Doran or Natario time but we consider a more…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-17 A. V. Toporensky , O. B. Zaslavskii

Kerr black holes are among the most intriguing predictions of Einstein's general relativity theory. These rotating massive astrophysical objects drag and intermix their surrounding space and time, deflecting and phase-modifying light…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-18 Fabrizio Tamburini , Bo Thidé , Gabriel Molina-Terriza , Gabriele Anzolin

The advent of gravitational wave observation starts a new era of precision tests of gravitational theory. Estimations of black holes mergers should come from any well established gravitational theories, provided that the theory has not been…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-06 Haryanto M. Siahaan

By solving a nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation in Kerr geometry, we uncover new phenomena and key characteristics of quantized vortices in quantum fluids near a Kerr black hole. The formation of these vortices induces rotational or turbulent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-04 Shilong Jin , Xiaofei Zhao , Yong Zhang , Chi Xiong

Classical black holes are solutions of the field equations of General Relativity. Many astronomical observations suggest that black holes really exist in nature. However, an unambiguous proof for their existence is still lacking. Neither…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-14 Andreas Mueller

The images of supermassive black holes surrounded by optically-thin, radiatively-inefficient accretion flows, like those observed with the Event Horizon Telescope, are characterized by a bright ring of emission surrounding the black-hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-01 Ziri Younsi , Dimitrios Psaltis , Feryal Özel

We consider the metric of a generic axially symmetric rotating stationary black hole. The general approach is developed that enables us to construct coordinate frame regular near the horizon. As explicit examples, the Kerr and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-19 O. B. Zaslavskii

Quadratic quasinormal modes encode fundamental properties of black hole spacetimes. They are also one of the key ingredients of nonlinearities of General Relativity in the ringdown stage of binary black hole coalescence. In this work, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-23 Neev Khera , Sizheng Ma , Huan Yang

General relativity (GR) predicts the existence of black hole (BH). The rotating BH called as a Kerr Black hole and GR implies that there is an upper limit on the angular momentum per mass squared of black holes $\leq 1$, above which the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-24 Sumit Panganti , Siba Prasad Das

The ratios $\sqrt{8/9}=2\sqrt{2}/3\approx 0.9428$ and $\sqrt{3}/2 \approx 0.866$ appear in various contexts of black hole physics, as values of the charge-to-mass ratio $Q/M$ or the rotation parameter $a/M$ for Reissner-Nordstr\"om and Kerr…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-20 Yen Chin Ong