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We revisit the one-parameter generalization of the C-metric derived by Ernst, which solves the vacuum Einstein equations. Resolving conflicting claims in the literature, we determine the correct value of the parameter that ensures the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-10 M. M. Akbar , C. P. Brewer , S. M. Modumudi

We consider the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet equations in five dimensions including a negative cosmological constant and a Maxwell field. Using an appropriate Ansatz for the metric and for the electromagnetic fields, we construct numerically black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-12-01 Y. Brihaye

It is thought that the spacetime metric around astrophysical black holes is well described by the Kerr solution of Einstein's gravity. However, a robust observational evidence of the Kerr nature of these objects is still lacking. Here we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-02 Yerong Xu , Sourabh Nampalliwar , Askar B. Abdikamalov , Dimitry Ayzenberg , Cosimo Bambi , Thomas Dauser , Javier A. Garcia , Jiachen Jiang

With a semiclassical polymerization in the loop quantum gravity (LQG), the interior of Schwarzschild black holes provides a captivating single-horizon regular black hole spacetime. The shortage of rotating black hole models in loop quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-23 Jitendra Kumar , Shafqat Ul Islam , Sushant G. Ghosh

This chapter provides a brief introduction to the Kerr spacetime and rotating black holes, touching on the most common coordinate representations of the spacetime metric and the key features of the geometry -- the presence of horizons and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-01-15 Matt Visser

We present black hole solutions in $2+1-$dimensional Einstein's theory of gravity coupled with Born-Infeld nonlinear electrodynamic and a massless self-interacting scalar field. The model has five free parameters: mass $M$, cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-30 S. Habib Mazharimousavi , M. Halilsoy

We construct exact black hole solutions to Einstein gravity with nonlinear electrodynamic field. In these solutions, there are in general four parameters. They are physical mass, electric charge, cosmological constant and the coupling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-27 Shuang Yu , Changjun Gao

The geometry of the spinning black holes of standard Einstein theory in 2+1 dimensions, with a negative cosmological constant and without couplings to matter, is analyzed in detail. It is shown that the black hole arises from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-30 Maximo Banados , Marc Henneaux , Claudio Teitelboim , Jorge Zanelli

We consider black holes generically sourced by quantum matter described by regular wavefunctions. This allows for integrable effective energy densities and the removal of Cauchy horizons in spherically symmetric configurations. Moreover, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-31 Roberto Casadio , Andrea Giusti , Jorge Ovalle

We study the energy-momentum characteristics of the rotating black hole - Kerr solution of general relativity in the Teleparallel Equivalent of General Relativity (TEGR) and the Symmetric Teleparallel Equivalent of General Relativity…

General Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 E. D. Emtsova , A. N. Petrov , A. V. Toporensky

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

We discuss the solution to Einstein's equations for a Lense-Thirring inspired metric describing a slowly rotating black hole coupled to nonlinear electrodynamics. We show that different schemes of rotation for the black hole exist; they…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-26 Claus Lämmerzahl , Marco Maceda , Alfredo Macías

The ring wormhole is the zero-mass limit of the Kerr metric. Its geometry is locally flat, but the topology is nontrivial, with a throat connecting two asymptotic regions and a distributional curvature singularity on the ring encircling the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-28 Mikhail S. Volkov

In the present paper, we consider a rotating black hole moving in a homogeneous massless scalar field. We assume that the field is weak and neglect its backreaction, so that the metric at far distance from the black hole is practically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-05 Valeri Frolov

Generalizations of the Black Hole geometry of Ba\~nados, Teitelboim and Zanelli (BTZ) are presented. The theory is three-dimensional vacuum Einstein theory with a negative cosmological constant. The $n$-black-hole solution has $n$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-30 Dieter R. Brill

We construct an approximate metric that represents the spacetime of spinning binary black holes (BBH) approaching merger. We build the metric as an analytical superposition of two Kerr metrics in harmonic coordinates, where we transform…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-25 Luciano Combi , Federico G. Lopez Armengol , Manuela Campanelli , Brennan Ireland , Scott C. Noble , Hiroyuki Nakano , Dennis Bowen

We apply the ultrarelativistic boosting procedure to map the metric of Schwarzschild-de Sitter spacetime into a metric describing de Sitter spacetime plus a shock-wave singularity located on a null hypersurface, by exploiting the picture of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-07 Emmanuele Battista , Giampiero Esposito , Paolo Scudellaro , Francesco Tramontano

We give a thorough description of the shape of rotating axisymmetric stable black-hole (apparent) horizons applicable in dynamical or stationary regimes. It is found that rotation manifests in the widening of their central regions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-11-21 Martin Reiris , Maria Eugenia Gabach Clement

This paper investigates the interplay between the geometric and topological properties of spherically symmetric black hole metrics within Einstein gravity, emphasizing implications for Bose-Einstein Condensation (BEC). By analyzing metric…

General Physics · Physics 2024-10-10 Wen-Xiang Chen

Recently Ho\v{r}ava proposed a renormalizable quantum gravity, without the ghost problem, by abandoning Einstein's equal-footing treatment of space and time through the anisotropic scaling dimensions. Since then various interesting aspects,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Mu-In Park