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Geodesic equations of the vacuum C-metric are derived and solved for various cases. The solutions describe the motion of timelike or null particles with conserved energy and angular momentum. Polar, nearly-circular orbits around weakly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-05-13 Yen-Kheng Lim

We study the geodesic motion of massless particles in singly rotating black ring spacetimes. We find stable stationary orbits of massless particles in toroidal spiral shape in the case that the thickness parameter of a black ring is less…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-08 Takahisa Igata , Hideki Ishihara , Yohsuke Takamori

We investigate the solution-generating technique based on the Breitenlohner-Maison (BM) linear system, for asymptotically flat, stationary, bi-axisymmetric black hole solutions with various horizon topologies in five-dimensional vacuum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-03 Jun-ichi Sakamoto , Shinya Tomizawa

The photon ring of a Kerr black hole decomposes into a self-similar hierarchy of subrings. Here, we show that this self-similar structure persists in phase space. Moreover, near the photon shell of bound photon orbits, dynamics are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-11 Roman Berens , Peter Galison , Trevor Gravely , Alexandru Lupsasca , Leo C. Stein

The existence of closed null circular geodesics around black holes is one of the most intriguing predictions of general relativity. It has recently been conjectured that the radii of black-hole photonspheres are bounded from below by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-16 Shahar Hod

Exact static, spherically symmetric solutions to the Einstein-Maxwell-scalar equations, with a dilatonic-type scalar-vector coupling, in $D$-dimensional gravity with a chain of $n$ Ricci-flat internal spaces are considered, with the Maxwell…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-08-17 K. A. Bronnikov

In this contribution we study the birefringence and the quasinormal modes (QNM) in the eikonal approximation, of the Einstein-Euler-Heisenberg black hole (EEH-BH) . The EEH-BH is an exact solution of the Einstein equations coupled to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-04 Nora Bretón , L. A. López

We analyze the behaviour of geodesic motion of test particles in the spacetime of a specific class of axially symmetric static vacuum solutions to the Einstein equations, hereafter referred to as linearized multipole solution (LM). We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-09-23 J. L. Hernandez-Pastora , L. Herrera , J. Ospino

Future black hole (BH) imaging observations are expected to resolve finer features corresponding to higher-order images of hotspots and of the horizon-scale accretion flow. In spherical spacetimes, the image order is determined by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-28 Prashant Kocherlakota , Luciano Rezzolla , Rittick Roy , Maciek Wielgus

The horizon and geodesic structure of static configurations generated by anisotropic conformal transforms of the Schwarzschild metric is analyzed. We construct the maximal analytic extension of such off--diagonal vacuum metrics and conclude…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergiu Vacaru , D. E. Goksel

We investigate the motion of a massless body interacting with the Maxwell relative equilibrium, which consists of n bodies of equal mass at the vertices of a regular polygon that rotates around a central mass. The massless body has three…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-01-11 Renato Calleja , Eusebius Doedel , Carlos García-Azpeitia

We revisit the equilibrium one-dimensional $\phi^4$ model from the dynamical systems point of view. We find an infinite number of periodic orbits which are computationally stable. At the same time some of the orbits are found to exhibit…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-05 William Graham Hoover , Kenichiro Aoki

Regularized Maxwell electrodynamics is a recently discovered theory of non-linear electrodynamics, with a "minimally regularized" field strength of a point charge, that is "very close" to the Maxwell theory in many aspects. In this paper we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-30 Tomas Hale , David Kubiznak , Jana Menšíková

Einstein-matter theories in which hairy black-hole configurations have been found are studied. We prove that the nontrivial behavior of the hair must extend beyond the null circular orbit (the photonsphere) of the corresponding spacetime.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 Shahar Hod

We investigate photon surfaces and their stability in a less symmetric spacetime, a general static warped product with a warping function acting on a Riemannian submanifold of codimension two. We find a one-dimensional pseudopotential that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-10 Yasutaka Koga , Takahisa Igata , Keisuke Nakashi

We find new solutions to the Einstein-Maxwell equations in the presence of mimetic field in $ D $ dimensions, all of which are asymptotically Antide Sitter. We derive the solutions in five-dimensional spacetime, in detail. By extending the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-13 Hamid R. Bakhtiarizadeh

By computing the Lyapunov exponent, which is the inverse of the instability time scale associated with this geodesic motion we show that there is two region of space which in both of them the equatorial timelike geodesics are stable via…

General Physics · Physics 2011-01-05 M. R. Setare , D. Momeni

In this work, we study time-like and null geodesics in a charged black hole background immersed in perfect fluid dark matter (PFDM). Using the condition for circular geodesics, we evaluate the energy ($E$) and angular momentum ($L$) in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-02 Anish Das , Anirban Roy Chowdhury , Sunandan Gangopadhyay

We have studied the null geodesics of the Schwarzschild black hole surrounded by quintessence matter. Quintessence matter is a candidate for dark energy. Here, we have done a detailed analysis of the geodesics and exact solutions are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-04 Sharmanthie Fernando

In this Letter we investigate uniformly rotating, homogeneous and axisymmetric relativistic fluid bodies with a toroidal shape. The corresponding field equations are solved by means of a multi-domain spectral method, which yields highly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-12-23 M. Ansorg , A. Kleinwächter , R. Meinel