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Complete sequences of new analytic solutions of Einstein's equations which describe thin super massive disks are constructed. These solutions are derived geometrically. The identification of points across two symmetrical cuts through a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 C. Pichon , D. Lynden-Bell

We wish to carry forward to higher dimensions the insightful and novel method of obtaining the Kerr metric proposed by one of us [Gen. Relativ. Gravit. 45, 2383 (2013)] for deriving the Myers-Perry rotating black hole metric. We begin with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-30 Amin Aghababaie Dastgerdi , Behrouz Mirza , Naresh Dadhich

We present the first exact and analytical solution in General Relativity describing an equilibrium configuration for two stationary black holes. The metric models two collinear extremal Kerr black holes immersed in an external and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-23 Marco Astorino , Matilde Torresan

We extract elegant and concise analytic formulae for the mass and rotation parameters of the Kerr black hole as well as its distance from the Earth only in terms of directly measurable quantities of the accretion disk revolving in the black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-09 Mehrab Momennia

We prove a key result regarding the mass and angular momentum content of linear vacuum perturbations of the Kerr metric obtained through the formalism developed by Chrzarnowski, Cohen, and Kegeles (CCK). More precisely we prove that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-07-19 Maarten van de Meent

The Kerr solution is the cornerstone of General Relativity (GR) for modelling astrophysical rotating black holes and for testing GR through gravitational-wave observations and black hole imaging. Understanding how the Kerr geometry is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-13 Jibril Ben Achour , Adolfo Cisterna , Hugo Roussille

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

General relativity (GR) predicts the existence of black hole (BH). The rotating BH called as a Kerr Black hole and GR implies that there is an upper limit on the angular momentum per mass squared of black holes $\leq 1$, above which the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-24 Sumit Panganti , Siba Prasad Das

We construct a new rotating solution of Einstein's theory in vacuum by exploiting the Lie point symmetries of the field equations in the complex potential formalism of Ernst. In particular, we perform a discrete symmetry transformation,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-20 José Barrientos , Adolfo Cisterna , Mokhtar Hassaine , Keanu Müller , Konstantinos Pallikaris

We discuss a solution of the Einstein equations, obtained by gluing the external Kerr metric and the internal Weyl metric, describing an axisymmetric static vacuum distorted black hole. These metrics are glued at the null surfaces…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-23 Valeri P. Frolov , Andrei V. Frolov

The Kerr-Newman metric describes a very special rotating, charged mass and is the most general of the asymptotically flat stationary 'black hole' solutions to the Einstein-Maxwell equations of general relativity. We review the derivation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-15 Tim Adamo , E. T. Newman

Recently, a quantum mechanical theory of quantum spaces described by a large $N$ non-commutative coordinates is proposed as a model for quantum gravity [1]. In this paper, we construct Kerr black hole as a rotating noncommutative geometry…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-13 Chong-Sun Chu

This work makes the first ever attempt to understand the influence of the black hole background space-time in determining the fundamental properties of the embedded relativistic acoustic geometry. To accomplish such task, the role of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-04 Hung-Yi Pu , Ishita Maiti , Tapas Kumar Das , Hsiang-Kuang Chang

We present exact solutions of test particle orbits spiralling inward from the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) of a Kerr black hole. Our results are valid for any allowed value of the angular momentum $a$-parameter of the Kerr metric.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-09 Andrew Mummery , Steven Balbus

We carry out the Kerr/CFT correspondence in a four-dimensional extremal rotating regular black hole with a non-linear magnetic monopole (NLMM). One problem in this study would be whether our geometry can be a solution or not. We search for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-25 Shingo Takeuchi

A test fluid composed of relativistic collisionless neutral particles in the background of Kerr metric is expected to generate non-isotropic equilibrium configurations in which the corresponding stress-energy tensor exhibits pressure and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-22 Claudio Cremaschini , Zdeněk Stuchlík

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

According to the no-hair theorem, astrophysical black holes are uniquely characterized by their masses and spins and are described by the Kerr metric. Several parametric spacetimes which deviate from the Kerr metric have been proposed in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-16 Tim Johannsen

We give a review of the works devoted to the treatment of the Kerr super black hole solution as a spinning particle. The real, complex and stringy structures of the Kerr and super-Kerr geometries are discussed, as well as the recent results…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Burinskii

Motivated by the increasing interest in finding physically viable rotating sources, we present a new class of anisotropic rotating solutions. The energy-momentum tensor compatible with the metric is composed of anisotropic matter with a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-10 Stefano Viaggiu