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The Newman-Janis trick is a procedure, (not even really an ansatz), for obtaining the Kerr spacetime from the Schwarzschild spacetime. This 50 year old trick continues to generate heated discussion and debate even to this day. Most of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-10 Del Rajan , Matt Visser

In this paper we construct four Kerr-like spacetimes starting from the loop black hole Schwarzschild solutions (LBH) and applying the Newman-Janis transformation. In previous papers the Schwarzschild LBH was obtained replacing the Ashtekar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-12-06 Francesco Caravelli , Leonardo Modesto

We examine the Newman-Janis algorithm's application to an exact regular static solution sustained by a minimally coupled scalar field with a non-standard kinetic term. Although coordinate complexification leads to a regular Kerr-like black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-16 Alexander Kamenshchik , Polina Petriakova

The strong gravitational field near massive blackhole is an interesting regime to test General Relativity(GR) and modified gravity theories. The knowledge of spacetime metric around a blackhole is a primary step for such tests. Solving…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-26 Utkarsh Kumar , Sukanta Panda , Avani Patel

We add a prescription to the Newman-Janis algorithm in order to use it as a means of finding new extended (`through r<0') rotating black hole spacetimes from static spherically symmetric ones. Then, we apply the procedure to a quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-17 R. Torres

The Newman-Janis (NJ) algorithm has been extensively used in the literature to generate rotating black hole solutions from nonrotating seed spacetimes. In this work, we show, using various constants of motion, that the null geodesic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-18 Rajibul Shaikh

An approach is presented to address singularities in general relativity using a complex Riemannian spacetime extension. We demonstrate how this method can be applied to both black hole and cosmological singularities, specifically focusing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-14 John W. Moffat

The Newman-Janis algorithm is the standard approach to rotation in general relativity which, in vacuum, builds the Kerr metric from the Schwarzschild spacetime. Recently, we have shown that the same algorithm applied to the Papapetrou…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-03 Maxim Makukov , Eduard Mychelkin

An approach is presented to resolve key paradoxes in black hole physics through the application of complex Riemannian spacetime. We extend the Schwarzschild metric into the complex domain, employing contour integration techniques to remove…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-14 J. W. Moffat

The Newman-Janis algorithm is well known to provide rotating black holes solutions to Einstein's equations from static seeds, through a complexification of a radial and a time coordinates. However, an ambiguity remains for the replacement…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-19 E. J. Gonzalez de Urreta , M. Socolovsky

We address a specific issue of the Newman-Janis algorithm: How to determine the general form of the complex transformation for the Schwarzschild metric and ensure that the resulting axisymmetric metric satisfies the zero-scalar-curvature…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-02 Chen Lan , Zi-Xiao Liu , Yan-Gang Miao

The Newman-Janis algorithm is supplemented with a null rotation and applied to the tensors of the Reissner-Nordstr\"om spacetime to generate the metric, Maxwell, Ricci and Weyl tensors for the Kerr-Newman spacetime. This procedure also…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-18 Aidan J. Keane

The Newman-Janis algorithm has been widely used to construct rotating black hole solutions from non-rotating counterparts. While this algorithm was developed within General Relativity, it has more recently been applied to non-rotating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-01-21 Devin Hansen , Nicolas Yunes

The Kerr-Newman metric is the unique vacuum solution of the General Relativistic field equations, in which any singularities or spacetime pathologies are hidden behind horizons. They are believed to describe the spacetimes of massive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-21 Dimitrios Psaltis

The prediction of spacetime singularities, regions of infinite curvature where classical physics breaks down, is one of the most profound challenges in General Relativity (GR). In particular, black hole solutions such as the Schwarzschild…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-18 Jose Pinedo Soto

We present a family of new rotating black hole solutions to Einstein's equations that generalizes the Kerr-Newman spacetime to include an anisotropic matter. The geometry is obtained by employing the Newman-Janis algorithm. In addition to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-08 Hyeong-Chan Kim , Bum-Hoon Lee , Wonwoo Lee , Youngone Lee

A simple yet systematic new algorithm to investigate the global structure of Kerr-Newman spacetime is suggested. Namely, the global structure of \theta=const. timelike submanifolds of Kerr-Newman metric are studied by introducing a new time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Hongsu Kim

We study strong gravitational lensing in rotating space-times which can be thought of as realistic galactic models in General Relativity. To this end, using the Newman-Janis algorithm, we first obtain a rotating version of a static galactic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-20 Pritam Banerjee , Suvankar Paul , Tapobrata Sarkar

We implement a probe counterpart of Newman-Janis algorithm, which Wick rotates the all-orders geodesic deviation equation into a part of exact spinning-particle equations of motion. Consequently, the gravitational dynamics of the Kerr black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-06 Joon-Hwi Kim

After the original discovery of the Kerr metric, Newman and Janis showed that this solution could be ``derived'' by making an elementary complex transformation to the Schwarzschild solution. The same method was then used to obtain a new…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-12-03 S. P. Drake P. Szekeres
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