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Astrophysical black holes (BHs) are universally expected to be described by the Kerr metric, a stationary, vacuum solution of general relativity (GR). Indeed, by imaging M87$^\star$ and Sgr A$^\star$ and measuring the size of their shadows,…

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A small deformation controlled by four free parameters to the Schwarzschild metric could be referred to a nonspinning black hole solution in alternative theories of gravity. Because such a non-Schwarzschild metric can be changed into a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-14 Hongxing Zhang , Naying Zhou , Wenfang Liu , Xin Wu

Motivated by recent work on rotating black hole shadow [Phys. Rev. D101, 084029 (2020)], we investigate the shadow behaviors of rotating Hayward-de Sitter black hole for static observers at a finite distance in terms of astronomical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-29 Peng-Zhang He , Qi-Qi Fan , Hao-Ran Zhang , Jian-Bo Deng

We investigate the possibility to distinguish the small-coupling, slow-rotation black hole solution of Chern-Simons (CS) gravity from the Kerr solution. We develop simulations of electromagnetic observables in the vicinity of CS and Kerr…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 F. H. Vincent

We construct initial data suitable for the Kerr stability conjecture, that is, solutions to the constraint equations on a spacelike hypersurface with boundary entering the black hole horizon that are arbitrarily decaying perturbations of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Allen Juntao Fang , Jérémie Szeftel , Arthur Touati

We compute the most general leading-order correction to Kerr solution when the Einstein-Hilbert action is supplemented with higher-derivative terms, including the possibility of dynamical couplings controlled by scalars. The model we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-06 Pablo A. Cano , Alejandro Ruipérez

We generalize the bumpy black hole framework to allow for alternative theory deformations. We construct two model-independent parametric deviations from the Kerr metric: one built from a generalization of the quasi-Kerr and bumpy metrics…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-25 Sarah Vigeland , Nicolás Yunes , Leo Stein

Dark matter (DM), a fundamental cosmic component, motivates the study of its influence on black hole (BH) shadows, especially for spinning BHs confirmed by EHT observations. This work generalizes the Schwarzschild BH surrounded by DM to an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-26 Haiyuan Feng , Ziqiang Cai , Rong-Jia Yang , Jinjun Zhang

Spin precession in compact binaries is intricately tuned to the multipole structure of the underlying bodies. For black holes, violations of the no-hair theorems induced by modifications to general relativity correct the precession…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-08 Nicholas Loutrel , Nicolas Yunes

We find general parameterizations for generic off-diagonal spacetime metrics and matter sources in general relativity (GR) and modified gravity theories when the field equations decouple with respect to certain types of nonholonomic frames…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-25 Tamara Gheorghiu , Olivia Vacaru , Sergiu I. Vacaru

Real astronomical objects possess spin, yet deriving exact solutions for rotating black holes within gravitational theories is a formidable challenge. To understand the shadow of rotating black holes in Lorentz-violating spacetimes induced…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-04 Wentao Liu , Di Wu , Jieci Wang

We set out to bridge the gap between regular black-hole spacetimes and observations of a black-hole shadow by the Event Horizon Telescope. We explore modifications of spinning and non-spinning black-hole spacetimes inspired by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-06-19 Aaron Held , Roman Gold , Astrid Eichhorn

The traditional approach to perturbations of nonrotating black holes in General Relativity uses the reformulation of the equations of motion into a radial second-order Schr\"odinger-like equation, whose asymptotic solutions are elementary.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-15 David Langlois , Karim Noui , Hugo Roussille

We study black hole linear perturbation theory in a four-dimensional Schwarzschild (anti) de Sitter background. When dealing with a positive cosmological constant, the corresponding spectral problem is solved systematically via the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-17 Gleb Aminov , Paolo Arnaudo , Giulio Bonelli , Alba Grassi , Alessandro Tanzini

Dynamical Chern-Simons gravity, a parity-violating modification of general relativity, is regarded as a low-energy effective theory arising from string theory. Gravitational waves provide a powerful probe for testing its predictions.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-30 Xinyi Che , Xiangyu Lyu , Changfu Shi

We construct dynamical black hole solutions to Einstein Equations in presence of matter in the large $D$ limit. The matter stress tensors that we consider are weak in the sense that they source asymptotic spacetimes with internal curvatures…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-06 Taniya Mandal , Arunabha Saha

We perform the stability analysis of the Schwarzschild black hole in $f(R)$ gravity with the parity-violating Chern-Simons (CS) term coupled to a dynamical scalar field $\theta$. For this purpose, we transform the $f(R)$ gravity into the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-29 Taeyoon Moon , Yun Soo Myung

We establish a thermodynamic-optical duality that directly bridges the semiclassical quantum evaporation of black holes with their classical macroscopic geometry. By employing a diffeomorphic inversion, we re-parameterize the intrinsic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-27 Nikko John Leo S. Lobos , Emmanuel T. Rodulfo

We derive an initial value formulation for dynamical Chern-Simons gravity, a modification of general relativity involving parity-violating higher derivative terms. We investigate the structure of the resulting system of partial differential…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 Térence Delsate , David Hilditch , Helvi Witek

We have studied the shadow of a disformal Kerr black hole with an extra deformation parameter, which belongs to non-stealth rotating solutions in quadratic Degenerate Higher Order Scalar Tensor (DHOST) theory. Our result show that the size…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-29 Fen Long , Songbai Chen , Mingzhi Wang , Jiliang Jing