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This paper investigates the observational signatures of hot spots orbiting scalarized Reissner-Nordstr\"om black holes, which have been reported to possess multiple photon spheres. In contrast to the single-photon sphere case, hot spots…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-23 Yiqian Chen , Peng Wang , Haitang Yang

The semi-review paper studies the null geodesics which appear for black hole solutions in the gravitational $4d$ model with anisotropic fluid. The equations of state for the fluid and solutions itselves depend upon integer parameter $q = 1,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-11 V. D. Ivashchuk , S. V. Bolokhov , F. B. Belissarova , N. Kydyrbay , A. N. Malybayev , G. S. Nurbakova , B. Zheng

In this work, we derive rigorous and universal bounds on the geometric characteristics of black holes in asymptotically flat spacetimes under assumptions that weak energy condition is satisfied. We prove that the event horizon radius, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-03 Vitalii Vertogradov

In this study we analyse null geodesics in an accelerated Schwarzschild black hole sustained by a cosmic string/strut (C-metric) in the sub-extremal regime. Using dimensionless variables and a Mino-type parameter we cast the equations into…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-30 Shokoufe Faraji , Eva Hackmann

Photon spheres have attracted considerable interest in the studies of black holes and other astrophysical objects. For different categories of spacetimes (or gravitational sources), the existence of photon spheres and their distributions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-05 Chen-Kai Qiao , Ping Su , Yang Huang

Ever since Penrose and Simpson contradicted Novikov's prediction that an infalling passenger would emerge into an asymptotically flat universe, there have been a continued interest in predicting the nature of singularity at the Cauchy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-23 Nihar Ranjan Ghosh , Malay K. Nandy

We reveal the existence of a new form of spontaneously scalarized black-hole configurations. In particular, it is proved that Reissner-Nordstr\"om black holes in the highly charged regime $Q/M>(Q/M)_{\text{crit}}=\sqrt{21}/5$ can support…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-23 Shahar Hod

We study spherically symmetric solutions of semilinear wave equations in the case where the nonlinearity satisfies the null condition on extremal Reissner--Nordstrom black hole spacetimes. We show that solutions which arise from…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-08-21 Yannis Angelopoulos

A classical question in general relativity is about the classification of regular static black hole solutions of the static Einstein-Maxwell equations (or electrovacuum system). In this paper, we prove some classification results for an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-18 Maria Andrade , Benedito Leandro , Róbson Lousa

Static manifolds with boundary were recently introduced to mathematics. This kind of manifold appears naturally in the prescribed scalar curvature problem on manifolds with boundary when the mean curvature of the boundary is also…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-09 Vladimir Medvedev

We study the analogue of the Oppenheimer-Snyder model of a collapsing sphere of homogeneous dust on the Randall-Sundrum type brane. We show that the collapsing sphere has the Vaidya radiation envelope which is followed by the brane analogue…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 M Govender , N Dadhich

In recent years there have appeared in the literature a large number of static, spherically symmetric metrics, which are regular at the origin, asymptotically flat, and have both an event and a Cauchy horizon for certain range of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-13 J. Ponce de Leon

With the help of the Bohr--Sommerfeld quantization rule, the area spectrum of a charged, spherically symmetric spacetime is obtained by studying an adiabatic invariant action variable. The period of the Einstein-Maxwell system, which is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-04-23 Xiao-Xiong Zeng , Wen-Biao Liu

We improve upon the results presented in [R. Casadio, et al., Phys. Rev. D 105 (2022) 124026] deriving a quantum-corrected Reissner-Nordstr\"om geometry containing an integrable singularity at its center while being devoid of spurious…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-06 Tommaso Antonelli , Marco Sebastianutti , Andrea Giusti

In general relativity, the asymptotically flat space-time of a charged, spherically symmetric (non-rotating) body is described by the Reissner-Nordstr\"om metric. This metric corresponds to a naked singularity when the absolute value of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-29 Ruchi Mishra , Włodek Kluźniak

It is proved that any static system that is spacetime-geodesically complete at infinity, and whose spacelike-topology outside a compact set is that of R^3 minus a ball, is asymptotically flat. The matter is assumed compactly supported and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-01-07 Martin Reiris

We study trajectories of test particles around a luminous, static, spherically symmetric neutron star, under the combined influence of gravity and radiation. In general relativity, for Schwarzschild spacetime, an equilibrium sphere (the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-06 Ronaldo S. S. Vieira , Maciek Wielgus

Certain time-like singularities are shown to be resolved already in classical General Relativity once one passes from particle probes to scalar waves. The time evolution can be defined uniquely and some general conditions for that are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Amit Giveon , Barak Kol , Amos Ori , Amit Sever

In this work, we have studied the motion of a massless scalar photon in the renormalization group (RG) improved Schwarzschild black hole spacetime in the presence of perfectly fluid dark matter (PFDM). Considering the critical orbit…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-04 Arpita Jana , Manjari Dutta , Sunandan Gangopadhyay

We investigate retrolensing of sunlights reflected by a photon sphere and by a potential barrier near an antiphoton sphere around a Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m naked singularity. We apply the deflection angles of light rays in strong deflection…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-06 Naoki Tsukamoto