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Multipole moments are related to the physical properties of compact gravitating objects; therefore, understanding their structure is useful in accessing the nature of compact objects. We look into gravitational wave observables for black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-04 Anirban Saha

Black holes in General Relativity are known as Kerr black holes and are characterized solely by two parameters, the mass $M$ and the spin $J$. All the higher multipole moments of the gravitational field are functions of these two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-02 Cosimo Bambi , Enrico Barausse

The black-hole information paradox provides a stringent test of would-be theories of quantum gravity. String theory has made significant progress toward a resolution of this paradox, and has led to the fuzzball and microstate geometry…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-11 Iosif Bena , Emil J. Martinec , Samir D. Mathur , Nicholas P. Warner

We investigate the gravitational multipole structure derived from scattering amplitudes in both four- and higher-dimensional spacetimes, with particular focus on the five-dimensional case. We develop a systematic procedure to extract…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-07 Francesco Campanella , Fabio Riccioni

Following the method of Hoenselaers and Perj\'{e}s we present a new corrected and dimensionally consistent set of multipole gravitational and electromagnetic moments for stationary axisymmetric spacetimes. Furthermore, we use our results to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Thomas P. Sotiriou , Theocharis A. Apostolatos

The horizon multipole moments of a Kerr black hole are computed from two distinct definitions that have been proposed in the literature. The first one [Ashtekar et al., Class. Quantum Grav. 21, 2549 (2004)] regards axisymmetric isolated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-08 Eric Gourgoulhon , Alexandre Le Tiec , Marc Casals

The traditional black hole has a horizon, with a singularity inside the horizon. But actual microstates of black holes are `fuzzballs', with no horizon and a complex internal structure. We take the simplest hole in string theory -- the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-20 Stefano Giusto , Samir D. Mathur

We discuss the scattering of massive scalar probes off Myers-Perry black holes in the Kerr-Schild gauge. Extending the analysis performed recently for Kerr(-Newman) black holes, we show that the Kerr-Schild gauge allows to write down the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-09 Massimo Bianchi , Claudio Gambino , Fabio Riccioni , Vincenzo Zevola

Even if globally neutral, in various scenarios compact objects can have a nonvanishing dipole moment. Examples include neutron stars with magnetic dipoles, black-hole microstates in the string-theory fuzzball scenario, and classical black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-13 Jacopo Lestingi , Enrico Cannizzaro , Paolo Pani

Our universe contains a great number of extremely compact and massive objects which are generally accepted to be black holes. Precise observations of orbital motion near candidate black holes have the potential to determine if they have the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 Sarah J. Vigeland , Scott A. Hughes

We derive the multipole moments of the Kerr-NUT black hole spacetime using the Geroch-Hansen formalism, even though the spacetime is not asymptotically flat. Intriguingly, in the presence of the NUT charge, the absence of reflection…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-04 Sajal Mukherjee , Sumanta Chakraborty

One of the most important sources for space-borne gravitational wave detectors such as TianQin and LISA, is the merger of massivie black hole binaries. By analyzing the inspiral signals, we can probe the characteristics of massive black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-30 Ying-Lin Kong , Jian-dong Zhang

In higher dimensions than four, conventional uniqueness theorem in asymptotically flat space-times does not hold, i.e., black objects can not be classified only by the mass, angular momentum and charge. In this paper, we define multipole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-12-23 Kentaro Tanabe , Seiju Ohashi , Tetsuya Shiromizu

We provide a fuzzball picture for Schwarzshild black holes, in which matters and energy consisting the hole are not positioned on the central point exclusively but oscillate around there in a serial of eigen-modes, each of which features a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-06 Ding-fang Zeng

In the traditional picture of black holes Hawking radiation is created by pair creation from the vacuum at the horizon. In the fuzzball proposal, individual microstates do not have a horizon with the `vacuum' state in its vicinity. For a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-15 Borun D. Chowdhury , Samir D. Mathur

In the LLM bubbling geometries, we compute the entropies of black holes and estimate their "horizon" sizes from the fuzzball conjecture, based on coarse-graining on the gravity side. The differences of black hole microstates cannot be seen…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-12-18 Noriaki Ogawa , Seiji Terashima

We describe the puzzles that arise in the quantum theory of black holes, and explain how they are resolved in string theory. We review how the Bekenstein entropy is obtained through the count of brane bound states. We describe the fuzzball…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-17 Samir D. Mathur , Madhur Mehta

We present a novel systematic framework for engineering energy-momentum tensors in linearized gravity that generate gravitational fields with a prescribed multipolar structure, aimed at modeling black hole mimickers. As a concrete example,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-24 Claudio Gambino

One can obtain very large classes of horizonless microstate geometries corresponding to near-extremal black holes by placing probe supertubes whose action has metastable minima inside certain supersymmetric bubbling solutions. We show that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-25 Iosif Bena , Giulio Pasini

We construct a model which illustrates the conjecture of fuzzball complementarity. In the fuzzball paradigm, the black hole microstates have no interior, and radiate unitarily from their surface through quanta of energy $E\sim T$. But…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Samir D. Mathur