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We use the Novikov-Thorne thin disk model to fit the thermal continuum X-ray spectra of black hole X-ray binaries, and thereby extract the dimensionless spin parameter a* = a/M of the black hole as a parameter of the fit. We summarize the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 J. E. McClintock , R. Narayan , L. Gou , J. Liu , R. F. Penna , J. F. Steiner

The Kerr spacetime is one of the most widely known solutions to Einstein's vacuum field equations and is commonly used to describe a black hole with mass $m$ and spin $a$. Astrophysical observations in the electromagnetic spectrum as well…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-06 Torben C. Frost

Applying a dimensional reduction technique and a coordinates transformation approach, we deduce the Kerr-Newman space-time into a Painlev\'{e}-like form, and obtain its corresponding event horizon and the Hawking radiation temperature. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-18 X. G. Lan , D. Y. Chen , L. F. Wei

This thesis aims to explore the properties of the motion of finite size, compact test bodies around a Kerr black hole in the small mass-ratio approximation. The small body is modelled as a perturbation of Kerr geometry, neglecting its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-07 Adrien Druart

We report a new method to calculate the quasinormal modes of rotating black holes, using a spectral decomposition to solve the partial differential equations that result from introducing linear metric perturbations to a rotating background.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-18 Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo , Fech Scen Khoo , Jutta Kunz , Luis Manuel González-Romero

Rotating black hole solution surrounded by quintessential matter is recently discussed because it might be the promising solution to study the effect of dark energy in small scale of the universe. This quintessential solution is originally…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-30 Muhammad Fitrah Alfian Rangga Sakti , Agus Suroso , Freddy Permana Zen

The properties of X-ray emission from accreting black holes are reviewed. The contemporary observational picture and current status of theoretical understanding of accretion and formation of X-ray radiation in the vicinity of the compact…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 M. Gilfanov

Recent X-ray observations of Galactic Black Hole Candidates and AGNs and Seyfert galaxies reveal the broad emission lines in their spectra, which can arise in the innermost parts of accretion disks. Simulation indicates that at low…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. F. Zakharov , S. V. Repin

We investigate the structure and emission properties of a thin accretion disk around a rotating charged black hole described by an effective higher-curvature-inspired spacetime, constructed as a phenomenological deformation of the Kerr…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-14 Mohammad Hassani , Kourosh Nozari , Sara Saghafi

We extract the Hubble law by the frequency-shift considerations of test particles revolving the Kerr black hole in asymptotically de Sitter spacetime. To this end, we take into account massive geodesic particles circularly orbiting the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-29 Mehrab Momennia , Alfredo Herrera-Aguilar , Ulises Nucamendi

The Kerr-Newman metric describes a very special rotating, charged mass and is the most general of the asymptotically flat stationary 'black hole' solutions to the Einstein-Maxwell equations of general relativity. We review the derivation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-15 Tim Adamo , E. T. Newman

We present a research of the time evolution of the redshift of light received from the binary star that moves in the external gravitational field of Kerr black hole. We formulate a method for the solution of inverse problem: calculating of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-24 Stanislav Komarov , Alexander Gorbatsievich

We propose a new radial coordinate to write the Kerr metric in puncture form. Unlike the quasi-radial coordinate introduced previously, the horizon radius remains finite in our radial coordinate in the extreme Kerr limit a/M -> 1. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-22 Yuk Tung Liu , Zachariah B. Etienne , Stuart L. Shapiro

Static, spherically symmetric black holes immersed in a dark matter halo with a Hernquist-type density profile have been derived by Cardoso et. al. in Ref. \redcite{Cardoso:2021wlq}. Using the Newman-Janis algorithm, we construct the metric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-27 Malihe Heydari-Fard , Mohaddese Heydari-Fard

In the Comment on "Can accretion disk properties observationally distinguish black holes from naked singularities?", by Bertrand Chauvineau, Phys. Rev. D {\bf 98}, 088501 (2018), the author did show that the metric used in Z. Kov\'{a}cs and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-14 Zoltán Kovács , Tiberiu Harko , Shahab Shahidi

Einstein-dilaton-Gauss-Bonnet gravity is a theoretically well-motivated alternative theory of gravity emerging as a low-energy 4-dimensional model from heterotic string theory. Its rotating black hole solutions are known numerically and can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-01 Hao Zhang , Menglei Zhou , Cosimo Bambi , Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz , Eugen Radu

We study time evolution of sub-Keplerian transonic accretion flows onto black holes using a general relativistic numerical simulation code. We perform simulations around the black holes having non-zero rotation. We first compare…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-07 Jinho Kim , Sudip K. Garain , Sandip K. Chakrabarti , Dinshaw S. Balsara

Using the Kerr-Schild formalism to solve the Einstein-Maxwell equations, we study energy transport due to time-dependent electromagnetic perturbations around a Kerr black hole, which may work as a mechanism to illuminate a disk located on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-09-14 Taichi Kobayashi , Kohei Onda , Akira Tomimatsu

We explicitly construct the metric of a Kerr black hole that is tidally perturbed by the external universe in the slow-motion approximation. This approximation assumes that the external universe changes slowly relative to the rotation rate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-14 Nicolas Yunes , Jose Gonzalez

Astrophysical black hole candidates are thought to be the Kerr black holes of general relativity, but the actual nature of these objects has still to be confirmed. The continuum-fitting and the iron line methods are currently the only…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-19 Cosimo Bambi