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The physical and mathematical properties of the non-linearly coupled black-hole-orbiting-ring system are studied analytically to second order in the dimensionless angular velocity $M_{\text{ir}}\omega_{\text{H}}$ of the black-hole horizon…

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A gravity theory called scalar-tensor-vector gravity (STVG) has been recently developed and succeeded in solar system, astrophysical and cosmological scales without dark matter [J. W. Moffat, J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys. 03, 004 (2006)].…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-02 Xue-Mei Deng , Yi Xie , Tian-Yi Huang

Gravitational waves exhibit the unique signature of their spin-2 nature in processes of wave scattering, due to the interaction between spin and a background spacetime. Since the spin effect is more pronounced for longer wavelengths and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-09 Kei-ichiro Kubota , Shun Arai , Hayato Motohashi , Shinji Mukohyama

We compute the vacuum polarization of a massless minimally co pled scalar field in a background given by a black hole with subtracted geometry. Extending previous results for the horizon of rotating black holes with no charge, we obtain an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-10 Alejandro Satz , Mirjam Cvetic

Recently, a new class of modified gravity theories formulated via an additional scalar and vector field on top of the standard tensor field has been proposed. The direct implications of these theories are expected to be relevant for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-11 Phongpichit Channuie , Davood Momeni

Recently, evidence for synchrotron emission in both black hole and neutron star X-ray binaries has been mounting, from optical/infrared spectral, polarimetric, and fast timing signatures. The synchrotron emission of jets can be highly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-23 David M. Russell

We study the energy-momentum characteristics of the rotating black hole - Kerr solution of general relativity in the Teleparallel Equivalent of General Relativity (TEGR) and the Symmetric Teleparallel Equivalent of General Relativity…

General Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 E. D. Emtsova , A. N. Petrov , A. V. Toporensky

This study considers the generalized uncertainty principle, which incorporates the central idea of large extra dimensions, to investigate the processes involved when massive spin-1 particles tunnel from Reissner-Nordstrom and Kerr black…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-28 Xiang-Qian Li

In a scalar-vector-gravity theory with the vector sector described by nonlinear electrodynamics, the field equations are integrated using the well-known gravitational decoupling method. The resulting spacetime corresponds to a spherically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-31 Manuel Gonzalez-Espinoza , Y. Gómez-Leyton , Z. Stuchlik , Francisco Tello-Ortiz

In this paper, we present a detailed analysis of first-order perturbations of the Kerr metric in the slow-rotation limit. We perform the calculation by perturbing the Schwarzschild metric plus up to second-order corrections in the spin in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-14 Nicola Franchini

In recent years, the shape of the photon ring in black holes images has been argued to provide a sharp test of the Kerr hypothesis for future black hole imaging missions. In this work, we confront this proposal to beyond Kerr geometries and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-27 Jibril Ben Achour , Eric Gourgoulhon , Hugo Roussille

Modified Gravity Theories (MGTs) are extensions of General Relativity (GR) in its standard formulation. Therefore, within this framework, we will investigate a system composed of a black hole (BH) surrounded by Maxwell-Higgs vortices,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-03 F. C. E. Lima

We study the scattering of massless scalar waves by a Kerr black hole by letting plane monochromatic waves impinge on the black hole. We calculate the relevant scattering phase-shifts using the Pruefer phase-function method, which is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 K Glampedakis , N Andersson

We perform an in-depth analysis of rotating scalarized black holes in scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity, where scalarization is induced by the spacetime curvature. Our results show that even for very large spins, the scalar charge can reach…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-19 Kalin V. Staykov , Daniela D. Doneva , Pedro G. S. Fernandes , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

To determine the polarization character of gravitational waves, we use strain data from the GW170814 binary black hole coalescence event detected by the three LIGO-Virgo observatories, extracting the gravitational wave strain signal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-07 Robert C. Hilborn

The lack of rotating black holes, typically found in nature, hinders testing modified gravity from astrophysical observations. We present the axially symmetric counterpart of an existing spherical hairy black hole in Horndeski gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-27 Rahul Kumar Walia , Sunil D. Maharaj , Sushant G. Ghosh

We investigate the motion of particles in the spacetime of a Kerr black hole immersed in swirling universes. Using the Poincar\'{e} section, fast Lyapunov exponent indicator, bifurcation diagram and basins of attraction, we present the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-11 Deshui Cao , Lina Zhang , Songbai Chen , Qiyuan Pan , Jiliang Jing

We present firstly the equation of motion for the photon coupled to a special bumblebee vector field in a Kerr black hole spacetime and find that the propagation of light depends on its polarization due to the birefringence phenomenon. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-30 Songbai Chen , Mingzhi Wang , Jiliang Jing

X-ray reflection spectroscopy is a powerful tool to probe the strong gravity region around black holes, but the available relativistic reflection models have a number of simplifications that lead to systematic uncertainties (not fully under…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-16 Alejandro Cardenas-Avendano , Menglei Zhou , Cosimo Bambi

The Quasinormal modes (QNMs) for gravitational and electromagnetic perturbations are calculated in a Scalar-Tensor-Vector (Modified Gravity) spacetime, which was initially proposed to obtain correct dynamics of galaxies and galaxy clusters…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-18 Luciano Manfredi , Jonas Mureika , John Moffat