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The uniqueness theorem for static charged higher dimensional black hole containing an asymptotically flat spacelike hypersurface with compact interior and with both degenerate and non-degenerate components of event horizon is proposed. By…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Marek Rogatko

We review recent results on the existence of static black holes without spatial isometries in four spacetime dimensions and propose a general framework for their study. These configurations are regular on and outside a horizon of spherical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-08 Carlos Herdeiro , Eugen Radu

A non-singular, static spherically symmetric solution to the nonsymmetric gravitational and electromagnetic theory field equations is derived, which depends on the four parameters m, l^2, Q and s, where m is the mass, Q is the electric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 N. J. Cornish , J. W. Moffat

In this paper, utilizing the generalized off shell Helmholtz free energy, we explore the topological numbers of the four-dimensional static accelerating black hole and its AdS extension, as well as the static charged accelerating black hole…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-24 Di Wu

Classical black holes contain a singularity at their core. This has prompted various researchers to propose a multitude of modified spacetimes that mimic the physically observable characteristics of classical black holes as best as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-08 Thomas Berry , Alex Simpson , Matt Visser

Regular black hole solutions are found among the Guilfoyle exact solutions. These are spherically symmetric solutions of general relativity coupled to Maxwell's electromagnetism and charged matter where the metric potentials and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-30 José P. S. Lemos , Vilson T. Zanchin

The transonic phenomenon of black hole accretion and the existence of the photon sphere are the characteristics of strong gravitational fields near a black hole horizon. In this work, we study spherical accretion flow onto a general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-01 Sen Yang , Cheng Liu , Tao Zhu , Li Zhao , Qiang Wu , Ke Yang , Mubasher Jamil

In this paper, we investigate the topological numbers of rotating charged AdS black holes in both four- and five-dimensional gauged supergravity theories. Our analysis is conducted within the framework of the thermodynamical topological…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-06 Xiao-Dan Zhu , Di Wu , Dan Wen

An electrically charged black hole solution with scalar hair in four dimensions is presented. The self-interacting scalar field is real and it is minimally coupled to gravity and electromagnetism. The event horizon is a surface of negative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Cristian Martinez , Ricardo Troncoso

We discuss photon rings around as well as shadows of Kerr black holes immersed in a swirling spacetime (KBHSU). We find that the spin-spin interaction between the angular momentum of the black hole and the swirling of the background leads…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-16 Rogério Capobianco , Betti Hartmann , Jutta Kunz , Nikhita Vas , João Novo

Based on the $\phi$-mapping topological current theory, we show that the presence of the black hole leaves fractional baryon charge outside the horizon in the Einstein-Skyrme theory. A topological current is derived from the Einstein-Skyrme…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Yi-Shi Duan , Xin-Hui Zhang , Li Zhao

In this paper, we explore the Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) within the context of photon spheres in charged black holes, framed by Perfect Fluid in Rastall Theory. We aim to validate the WGC by identifying the extremality states of these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-21 Saeed Noori Gashti , İzzet Sakallı , Behnam Pourhassan

From a purely geometric (kinematic) perspective, black holes in four dimensional spacetimes can have event horizons with arbitrary topologies. It is only when energy conditions are imposed that the horizon's topology is constrained to be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-19 Carlos Barceló , Gerardo García-Moreno , Alejandro Jiménez Cano

We study the motion of bound null geodesics with fixed coordinate radius around a five-dimensional rotating black hole. These spherical photon orbits are not confined to a plane, and can exhibit interesting quasiperiodic behaviour. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-14 Mark Bugden

The classification of critical points of charged topological black holes (TBHs) in anti-de Sitter spacetime (AdS) under the Power Maxwell Invariant (PMI)-massive gravity is accomplished within the framework of black hole chemistry (BHC).…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-06 Meng-Yao Zhang , Hao Chen , Hassan Hassanabadi , Zheng-Wen Long , Hui Yang

Modern derivations of the first law of black holes appear to show that the only charges that arise are monopole charges that can be obtained by surface integrals at infinity. However, the recently discovered five dimensional black ring…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Keith Copsey , Gary T. Horowitz

Black hole thermodynamics is a crucial and foundational aspect of black hole physics, yet its observational verification remains exceptionally challenging. The photon sphere of a black hole, a manifestation of strong gravitational effects,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-29 Si-Jiang Yang , Shan-Ping Wu , Shao-Wen Wei , Yu-Xiao Liu

We study 4-dimensional asymptotically flat electrostatic electro-vacuum spacetimes with a connected black hole, photon sphere, or equipotential photon surface inner boundary. Our analysis, inspired by the potential theory approach by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-06 Stefano Borghini , Carla Cederbaum , Albachiara Cogo

We construct the general solution for non-extremal charged rotating black holes in five-dimensional minimal gauged supergravity. They are characterised by four non-trivial parameters, namely the mass, the charge, and the two independent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Z. -W. Chong , M. Cvetic , H. Lu , C. N. Pope

Circular photon orbits have become an attractive topic in recent years. They play extremely important roles in black hole shadows, gravitational lensings, quasi-normal modes, and spacetime topological properties. In our recent work,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-11 Chenkai Qiao , Ming Li , Donghui Xie , Minyong Guo