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Traversable wormholes (TWHs) remain one of the most intriguing predictions of General Relativity (GR), offering passage through space-time. However, their existence requires the violation of the null energy condition, making their detection…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-18 Subenoy Chakraborty , Madhukrishna Chakraborty

In this paper, we construct generic, spherically symmetric thin-shell wormholes and check their stabilities using the unified dark sector, including dark energy and dark matter. We give a master equation, from which one can recover, as a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-22 Ali Övgün , Kimet Jusufi

This paper reexamines a special class of thin-shell wormholes that are unstable in general relativity in the framework of noncommutative geometry. It is shown that as a consequence of the intrinsic uncertainty these wormholes are stable to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-08-21 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

In this paper, we investigate the microlensing effects of wormholes associated to black hole spacetimes. Specifically, we work on three typical wormholes (WH): Schwarzschild WH, Kerr WH, and RN WH, as well as their blackhole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-09 Ke Gao , Lei-Hua Liu , Mian Zhu

The firm observational confirmation of the late-time acceleration of the universe expansion has proposed a major challenge to the theoretical foundations of cosmology and the explanation of the acceleration mechanism requires the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-20 D Wang , Xin-He Meng

In this work we demonstrate that wormholes can in principle be naturally created during the cosmological bounce without the need for the exotic matter or any kind of additional modifications of the gravitational sector, apart from the one…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-07 Petar Pavlović , Marko Sossich

We study the effects of the local environmental density and the cosmic web environment (filaments, walls, and voids) on key properties of dark matter halos using the Bolshoi-Planck LCDM cosmological simulation. The z = 0 simulation is…

The standard model of cosmology, the LCDM model, robustly predicts the existence of a multitude of dark matter 'subhaloes' around galaxies like the Milky Way. A wide variety of observations have been proposed to look for the gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 Ian G. McCarthy , Andreea S. Font

Traversable wormhole solutions in General Relativity require exotic matter sources that violate the null energy condition (NEC), and such behavior maybe avoided in modified gravity. In this study, we analyze the energy conditions for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-25 Anshuman Baruah , Parangam Goswami , Atri Deshamukhya

It has been suggested that the cosmological constant is a variable dynamical quantity. A class of solution has been presented for the spherically symmetric space time describing wormholes by assuming the erstwhile cosmological constant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Rahaman , M. Kalam , M. Sarker , A. Ghosh , B. Raychaudhuri

This study explores the possible formation of asymptotically flat traversable wormholes within dark matter halos under the framework of Kalb-Ramond gravity. The wormhole solutions are derived based on the King and Navarro-Frenk-White dark…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-21 Susmita Sarkar , Nayan Sarkar

We construct explicit examples of globally regular static, spherically symmetric solutions of general relativity with a phantom scalar field as the source of gravity, describing traversable wormholes with flat asymptotic regions on both…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-19 K. A. Bronnikov , P. A. Korolyov

The detection of a stochastic gravitational wave background by pulsar-timing arrays indicates the presence of a population of supermassive black hole binaries. Although the observed spectrum generally matches predictions for orbital…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-06 Yifan Chen , Matthias Daniel , Daniel J. D'Orazio , Xuanye Fan , Andrea Mitridate , Laura Sagunski , Xiao Xue , Gabriella Agazie , Akash Anumarlapudi , Anne M. Archibald , Zaven Arzoumanian , Jeremy G. Baier , Paul T. Baker , Bence Bécsy , Laura Blecha , Adam Brazier , Paul R. Brook , Sarah Burke-Spolaor , Rand Burnette , J. Andrew Casey-Clyde , Maria Charisi , Shami Chatterjee , Tyler Cohen , James M. Cordes , Neil J. Cornish , Fronefield Crawford , H. Thankful Cromartie , Kathryn Crowter , Megan E. DeCesar , Paul B. Demorest , Heling Deng , Lankeswar Dey , Timothy Dolch , Elizabeth C. Ferrara , William Fiore , Emmanuel Fonseca , Gabriel E. Freedman , Emiko C. Gardiner , Nate Garver-Daniels , Peter A. Gentile , Kyle A. Gersbach , Joseph Glaser , Deborah C. Good , Kayhan Gültekin , Jeffrey S. Hazboun , Ross J. Jennings , Aaron D. Johnson , Megan L. Jones , David L. Kaplan , Luke Zoltan Kelley , Matthew Kerr , Joey S. Key , Nima Laal , Michael T. Lam , William G. Lamb , Bjorn Larsen , T. Joseph W. Lazio , Natalia Lewandowska , Tingting Liu , Duncan R. Lorimer , Jing Luo , Ryan S. Lynch , Chung-Pei Ma , Dustin R. Madison , Alexander McEwen , James W. McKee , Maura A. McLaughlin , Natasha McMann , Bradley W. Meyers , Patrick M. Meyers , Chiara M. F. Mingarelli , Cherry Ng , David J. Nice , Stella Koch Ocker , Ken D. Olum , Timothy T. Pennucci , Benetge B. P. Perera , Polina Petrov , Nihan S. Pol , Henri A. Radovan , Scott M. Ransom , Paul S. Ray , Joseph D. Romano , Jessie C. Runnoe , Alexander Saffer , Shashwat C. Sardesai , Ann Schmiedekamp , Carl Schmiedekamp , Kai Schmitz , Brent J. Shapiro-Albert , Xavier Siemens , Joseph Simon , Magdalena S. Siwek , Sophia V. Sosa Fiscella , Ingrid H. Stairs , Daniel R. Stinebring , Kevin Stovall , Abhimanyu Susobhanan , Joseph K. Swiggum , Jacob Taylor , Stephen R. Taylor , Jacob E. Turner , Caner Unal , Michele Vallisneri , Rutger van Haasteren , Sarah J. Vigeland , Haley M. Wahl , Caitlin A. Witt , David Wright , Olivia Young

Matter and dark matter in galaxies represent two main components linked by the gravitational interaction. Collisions of galaxies may create an offset between the centers of mass of these components. Ignoring internal dynamics of particles…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-27 V. V. Flambaum , I. B. Samsonov

The planar arrangement of nearly half the satellite galaxies of M31 has been a source of mystery and speculation since it was discovered. With a growing number of other host galaxies showing these satellite galaxy planes, their stability…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-15 Nuwanthika Fernando , Veronica Arias , Geraint F. Lewis , Rodrigo A. Ibata , Chris Power

It is well known that traversable wormholes are valid solutions of the Einstein field equations, but these structures can only be maintained by violating the null energy condition. In this paper, we have obtained such wormhole solutions in…

General Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Nayan Sarkar , Susmita Sarkar , Farook Rahaman , P. K. F. Kuhfittig , G S Khadekar

In the conventional method of studying wormhole (WH) geometry, traversability requires the presence of exotic matter, which also provides negative gravity effects to keep the wormhole throat open. In dRGT massive gravity theory, we produce…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-07 Piyali Bhar

Various spacetime candidates for traversable wormholes, regular black holes, and `black-bounces' are presented and thoroughly explored in the context of the gravitational theory of general relativity. All candidate spacetimes belong to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-30 Alex Simpson

High-resolution LCDM cosmological N-body simulations are used to study the properties of galaxy-size dark halos in different environments (cluster, void, and "field"). Halos in clusters and their surroundings have a median spin parameter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. Avila-Reese , P. Colin , S. Gottloeber , C. Firmani , C. Maulbetsch

In the paper we obtain traversable wormhole (TW) solutions in the Einstein gravity with a functional form of the dark matter in the galactic halo. The dark matter model is pseudo isothermal which is derived from modified gravity. For a…

General Physics · Physics 2020-08-12 B. C. Paul