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In this paper, we investigated the motion of massive particles in the presence of scalar and gravitational fields, particularly focusing on the Janis-Newman-Winicour (JNW) naked singularity solution. It is shown that the innermost stable…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-11 Bobur Turimov , Akbar Davlataliev , Ahmadjon Abdujabbarov , Bobomurat Ahmedov

Gravitational wave echoes can be used as a significant observable to understand the properties of black holes horizon. In addition, echoes would also closely relate to the unique properties of compact objects. In this work we study the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-10 Yi Yang , Dong Liu , Zhaoyi Xu , Yujia Xing , Shurui Wu , Zheng-Wen Long

We investigate the weak cosmic censorship conjecture by analyzing the dynamics of spinning timelike particles dropped along the rotational axis of an extremal Kerr (anti)de Sitter black hole. This idea was first considered in a seminal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-28 Antonia M. Frassino , Jorge V. Rocha , Andrea P. Sanna

We give two new analytical solutions to the low-energy string theory action that violate the weak cosmic censorship conjecture. They are classical charged solutions to the Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton theory in four dimensions that come in two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-24 Prieslei Goulart

The study investigates orbital motion of test particles near compact objects described by solutions involving massless scalar fields, electromagnetic fields, and nonlinear electrodynamics. Specifically, we analyze orbital dynamics in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-29 J. Horák , T. Tahamtan , T. Hale , G. Török , A. Kotrlová , E. Šrámková

We investigate whether a timelike naked singularity of negative-mass Schwarzschild type can be causally dressed by a static anisotropic matter distribution in classical general relativity. Working within a spherically symmetric framework,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-19 Pablo León , G. Alencar , Manuel Gonzalez-Espinoza , Francisco Tello-Ortiz

In the present paper, we study the thermal properties of the geometrically thin accretion disks surrounding the null naked singularity (NNS) and the first type of Joshi-Malafarina-Narayan (JMN1) spacetimes and compare the results with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-31 Divya Tahelyani , Ashok B. Joshi , Dipanjan Dey , Pankaj S. Joshi

We obtain a new self-similar solution to the Einstein's equations in four-dimensions, representing the collapse of a spherically symmetric, minimally coupled, massless, scalar field. Depending on the value of certain parameters, this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Oliveira-Neto , F. I. Takakura

The recent convergence of gravitational-wave (GW) observations and black hole imaging provides complementary probes of strong-gravity dynamics. While the black hole shadow is typically modeled as a static feature, a dynamically perturbed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-03 Reggie C. Pantig

This study delves into the existence of dark matter around supermassive black holes in galactic cores using a novel gravitational model. By analyzing gravitational waves emitted during the ringdown phase of black holes under different field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-14 Jie Liang , Dong Liu , Hao-Jie Lin , Zheng-Wen Long

In this paper we construct four Kerr-like spacetimes starting from the loop black hole Schwarzschild solutions (LBH) and applying the Newman-Janis transformation. In previous papers the Schwarzschild LBH was obtained replacing the Ashtekar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-12-06 Francesco Caravelli , Leonardo Modesto

We investigate what are the key physical features that cause the development of a naked singularity, rather than a black hole, as the end-state of spherical gravitational collapse. We show that sufficiently strong shearing effects near the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Pankaj S. Joshi , Naresh Dadhich , Roy Maartens

We investigate the strong cosmic censorship conjecture in lukewarm Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m-de Sitter black holes (and Mart\'{i}nez-Troncoso-Zanelli black holes) using the quasinormal resonance of non-minimally coupled massive scalar field.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-20 Bogeun Gwak

It is now known that the shadow is not only the property of a black hole, it can also be cast by other compact objects like naked singularities. However, there exist some novel features of the shadow of the naked singularities which are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-14 Parth Bambhaniya , Dipanjan Dey , Ashok B. Joshi , Pankaj S. Joshi , Divyesh N. Solanki , Aadarsh Mehta

In this study, the particle motion around the naked singularity and black hole of Kerr-Newman spacetime is investigated with a special attention on the closed timelike orbits. It is found that both in the naked singularity (NS) and in black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-08 Ayanendu Dutta , Dhritimalya Roy , Subenoy Chakraborty

The cosmological constant induced by quantum fluctuation of the graviton on a given background is considered as a tool for building a spectrum of different geometries. In particular, we apply the method to the Schwarzschild background with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-07-24 Remo Garattini

We consider a gravastar model made of anisotropic dark energy with an infinitely thin spherical shell of a perfect fluid with the equation of state $p = (1-\gamma)\sigma$ with an external de Sitter-Schwarzschild region. It is found that in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-17 C. F. C. Brandt , R. Chan , M. F. A. da Silva , P. Rocha

Recent numerical simulations have found that the Cauchy horizon inside spherical charged black holes, when perturbed nonlinearly by a self-gravitating, minimally-coupled, massless, spherically-symmetric scalar field, turns into a null weak…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Lior M. Burko

The Janis-Newman-Winicour metric is a solution of Einstein's gravity minimally coupled to a real massless scalar field. The $\gamma$-metric is instead a vacuum solution of Einstein's gravity. These spacetimes have no horizon and possess a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-08 Hrishikesh Chakrabarty , Carlos A. Benavides-Gallego , Cosimo Bambi , Leonardo Modesto

The cosmic censorship conjecture posits that singularities forming to the future of a regular Cauchy surface are hidden by an event horizon. Consequently any topological structures will ultimately collapse within the horizon of a set of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-17 Alexander R. H. Smith , Robert B. Mann