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Einstein's theory of General Relativity predicts that the spacetime metric around astrophysical black holes is described by the Kerr solution. In this work, we employ state-of-the-art in relativistic reflection modeling to analyze a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-31 Ashutosh Tripathi , Yuexin Zhang , Askar B. Abdikamalov , Dimitry Ayzenberg , Cosimo Bambi , Jiachen Jiang , Honghui Liu , Menglei Zhou

The Newman-Janis (NJ) method is a prescription to derive the Kerr space-time from the Schwarzschild metric. The BTZ, Kerr and five-dimensional Myers-Perry (MP) black hole solutions have already been generated by different versions of the NJ…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-19 Masoumeh Tavakoli , Behrouz Mirza

We construct the spacetime in the vicinity of a general isolated, rotating, charged black hole. The black hole is modeled as a weakly isolated horizon, and we use the characteristic initial value formulation of the Einstein equations with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-04 Badri Krishnan

The Newman-Janis algorithm and its generalizations can be used mathematically to generate rotating solutions from nonrotating spherically-symmetric solutions within general relativity. The energy-momentum tensors of these solutions may or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-05 Philip Beltracchi , Paolo Gondolo

The Newman-Janis Ansatz was used first to obtain the stationary Kerr metric from the static Schwarzschild metric. Many works have been devoted to investigate the physical significance of this Ansatz, but no definite answer has been given so…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-05 Antonio C. Gutiérrez-Piñeres , Hernando Quevedo

Obtaining solutions of the Einstein field equations describing spinning compact bodies is typically challenging. The Newman-Janis algorithm provides a procedure to obtain rotating spacetimes from a static, spherically symmetric, seed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-17 Haroldo C. D. Lima Junior , Luís C. B. Crispino , Pedro V. P. Cunha , Carlos A. R. Herdeiro

In this work, we re-examined the ancient complex metric in the recent quantum picture of black holes as Bose-Einstein condensates of gravitons. Both black holes and particles can be described by the complex Kerr-Newman metric in a 6-D…

General Physics · Physics 2019-08-27 Liangsuo Shu , Kaifeng Cui , Xiaokang Liu , Wei Liu

Rapidly-rotating black-hole spacetimes outside general relativity are key to many tests of Einstein's theory. We here develop an efficient spectral method to represent such spacetimes analytically, in closed-form, and to high accuracy, in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-21 Kelvin Ka-Ho Lam , Adrian Ka-Wai Chung , Nicolás Yunes

We consider the quantization of the complete extension of the Schwarzschild space-time using spherically symmetric loop quantum gravity. We find an exact solution corresponding to the semi-classical theory. The singularity is eliminated but…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Rodolfo Gambini , Jorge Pullin

In this work, starting from a spherically symmetric polytropic black hole, a rotating solution is obtained by following the Newman--Janis algorithm without complexification. Besides studying the horizon, the static conditions and causality…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-23 E. Contreras , J. M. Ramirez-Velasquez , Á. Rincón , G. Panotopoulos , P. Bargueño

This work is an extensive literature review focusing on a few of the important topics in the large-scale structure of spacetime. The work is a Bachelor's thesis submitted at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Leipzig. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-18 Rohan Kulkarni

In this paper, an exact solution of Kerr black hole surrounded by a cloud of strings in Rastall gravity is obtained by Newman-Janis algorithm without complexification, and the influence of the string parameter $a_0$ on the black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-19 Zonghai Li , Tao Zhou

We obtain a closed formula for the Kaehler potential of a broad class of four-dimensional Lorentzian or Euclidean conformal "Kaehler" geometries, including the Plebanski-Demianski class and various gravitational instantons such as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-03 Steffen Aksteiner , Bernardo Araneda

Janis-Newman-Winicour (JNW) spacetimes generalize the Schwarzschild solution to include a massless scalar field. Although suffering from naked singularities, they share the `frozen star' features of Schwarzschild black holes. Cosmological…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-18 David Kastor , Jennie Traschen

To date, a mathematically consistent construction of effective rotating black hole models in the context of Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) is still lacking. In this work, we start with the assumption that rotating LQG black hole metrics can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-05 Che-Yu Chen

A central problem in General Relativity is obtaining a solution to describe the source's interior counterpart for Kerr black hole. Besides, determining a method to match the interior and exterior solutions through a surface free of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-08 A. C. Gutiérrez-Piñeres , N. Hernández , C. S. Lopez-Monsalvo

The final fate of gravitational collapse of massive stars has been a subject of interest for a long time since such a collapse may lead to black holes and naked singularities alike. Since, the formation of naked singularities is forbidden…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-16 Subhadip Sau , Indrani Banerjee , Soumitra SenGupta

For extremal black holes, one can construct simpler, limiting spacetimes that describe the geometry near degenerate horizons. Since these spacetimes are known to have enhanced symmetry, the limiting objects coincide for different solutions.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-15 Filip Hejda , Jiří Bičák

In the literature, the Newman-Janis algorithm (NJA) has been widely used to construct stationary and axisymmetric spacetimes to describe rotating black holes. In addition, it has been recently shown that the general stationary and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-04 Che-Yu Chen , Pisin Chen

The search for solutions of Einstein's equations representing relativistic cosmological models with a discrete matter content has been remarkably fruitful in the last decade. In this review we discuss the progress made in the study of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-08 Eloisa Bentivegna , Timothy Clifton , Jessie Durk , Mikołaj Korzyński , Kjell Rosquist