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In this second paper of our series started with \cite{Berens2024}, we investigate linearized gravitational perturbations of a rotating Kerr black hole in a non-asymptotically flat spacetime with (anti-)de Sitter boundary conditions. Here,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-10 Roman Berens , Trevor Gravely , Alexandru Lupsasca

Boost-rotation symmetric spacetimes are the only locally asymptotically flat axially symmetric electrovacuum spacetimes with a further symmetry that are radiative. They are realized by uniformly accelerated particles of various kinds or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 V. Pravda , A. Pravdova

We introduce a new general-relativistic timing observable that measures the breaking of reflection symmetry in photon arrival times caused by black hole spin. Using backward ray tracing in the Kerr spacetime, we construct time-delay maps…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-14 Shakibul Chowdhury

An exact solution of Einstein's field equations in empty space first found in 1985 by Quevedo and Mashhoon is analyzed in detail. This solution generalizes Kerr spacetime to include the case of matter with arbitrary mass quadrupole moment…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-10 Donato Bini , Andrea Geralico , Orlando Luongo , Hernando Quevedo

In this work, expanded solutions of force-free magnetospheres on general Kerr black holes are derived through a radial distance expansion method. From the regular conditions both at the horizon and at spatial infinity, two previously known…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-02 Huiquan Li , Jiancheng Wang

The ringdown phase of the binary black hole (BBH) merger provides a clean and direct probe of strong-field gravity and tests of the nature of black holes. The quasinormal mode (QNM) frequencies in modified gravity theories, as well as their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-02 Zexin Hu , Daniela D. Doneva , Ziming Wang , Vasileios Paschalidis , Gabriele Bozzola , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev , Lijing Shao

In the present work, we extend and generalize our previous work regarding the scale dependence applied to black holes in the presence of non-linear electrodynamics [1]. The starting point for this study is the Einstein-power-Maxwell theory…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-05 Angel Rincon , Ernesto Contreras , Pedro Bargueño , Benjamin Koch , Grigoris Panotopoulos

We construct asymptotically flat, spinning, regular on and outside an event horizon, scalarised black holes (SBHs) in extended scalar-tensor-Gauss-Bonnet models. They reduce to Kerr BHs when the scalar field vanishes. For an illustrative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-10 Pedro V. P. Cunha , Carlos A. R. Herdeiro , Eugen Radu

All black holes (BHs) in nature are expected to be described by the Kerr vacuum solution of general relativity (GR). However, the Kerr BH interior contains several problematic features such as a Cauchy horizon, a curvature singularity, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-23 Prashant Kocherlakota , Ramesh Narayan

We study supermassive black holes (SMBH), surrounded by a dark matter (DM) spike, that can be found at the centers of Milky Way and $\text{M87}$ galaxies and are accompanied by a specific kind of topological defect. The investigation is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-17 Salvatore Capozziello , Soroush Zare , Luis M. Nieto , Hassan Hassanabadi

We study the problem of self-energy of charges in higher dimensional static spacetimes. Application of regularization methods of quantum field theory to calculation of the classical self-energy of charges leads to model-independent results.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 Valeri P. Frolov , Andrei Zelnikov

We study higher dimensional charged Kerr-Schild (KS) spacetimes that can be constructed by a KS transformation of a vacuum solution with an arbitrary cosmological constant, and for which the vector potential is aligned with the KS vector…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-10 Marcello Ortaggio , Aravindhan Srinivasan

We consider the effective theory of the large D stationary black hole. By solving Einstein equation with a cosmological constant using the 1/D expansion in near zone of a black hole we obtain the effective equation for the stationary black…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-09 Ryotaku Suzuki , Kentaro Tanabe

Behaviour of singularities of the rotating black holes under an arbitrary boost is considered on the basis of a complex representation of the Kerr theorem. We give a simple algorithm allowing to get explicit expressions for the metric and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-15 Alexander Burinskii , Giulio Magli

Black hole spacetimes, like the Kerr spacetime, admit both stable and plunging orbits, separated in parameter space by the separatrix. Determining the location of the separatrix is of fundamental interest in understanding black holes, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-09 Leo C. Stein , Niels Warburton

Post-adiabatic models of extreme- and intermediate-mass-ratio inspirals will require calculations of second-order gravitational self-force effects in the spacetime of a spinning, Kerr black hole. We take a step toward such calculations by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-04 Patrick Bourg , Benjamin Leather , Marc Casals , Adam Pound , Barry Wardell

We consider the Maxwell equation in the exterior of a very slowly rotating Kerr black hole. For this system, we prove the boundedness of a positive definite energy on each hypersurface of constant $t$. We also prove the convergence of each…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-04 Lars Andersson , Pieter Blue

The spacetime around astrophysical black holes is thought to be described by the Kerr solution. However, even within general relativity, there is not yet a proof that the final product of the complete collapse of an uncharged body can only…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-26 Jiahao Tao , Shafqat Riaz , Biao Zhou , Askar B. Abdikamalov , Cosimo Bambi , Daniele Malafarina

We investigate strong gravitational lensing using magnetized Kerr black holes (MKBHs), which are accurate Kerr-Bertotti-Robinson solutions for Kerr black holes in a uniform magnetic field with additional magnetic field strength $B$ apart…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-28 Amnish Vachher , Arun Kumar , Sushant G. Ghosh

We study the scalar perturbation on the background of a Kerr black hole in the dynamical Chern-Simons modified gravity with a quadratic coupling between the scalar field and Chern-Simons term. In particular, the late-time tails of scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-22 Yuan-Xing Gao , Yang Huang , Dao-Jun Liu