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We bring the Kerr--Newman spacetime into the Bondi--Sachs gauge by means of zero angular momentum, null geodesics. We compute the memory effect produced at the black hole horizon by a transient gravitational shock wave, which from future…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-21 Marco Galoppo , Rudeep Gaur , Christopher Harvey-Hawes

We compute the memory effect produced at the black hole horizon by a transient gravitational shockwave. As shown by Hawking, Perry, and Strominger (HPS) such a gravitational wave produces a deformation of the black hole geometry which from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-19 Laura Donnay , Gaston Giribet , Hernan A. Gonzalez , Andrea Puhm

Recently, Hawking, Perry and Strominger described a physical process that implants supertranslational hair on a Schwarzschild black hole by an infalling matter shock wave without spherical symmetry. Using the BMS-type symmetries of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-22 Sanved Kolekar , Jorma Louko

The memory effect, in the context of gravitational-waves (GWs), manifests itself in the permanent relative displacement of test masses when they encounter the GWs. A number of works have explored the possibility of detecting the memory when…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-23 Sajad A. Bhat , Srijit Bhattacharjee , Shasvath J. Kapadia

Gravitational memory effect has emerged as a new window and opened up several intriguing avenues in the field of gravitational wave astronomy together with its inter-connection to asymptotic symmetries (AS). The recent developments in this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-22 Shailesh Kumar

Soft hairs of black holes are the Noether charges associated with the generalized Bondi-Metzner-Sachs symmetries. In this work, the images of soft-haired Kerr black holes are studied. For an eternal black hole, the image is rotated,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-12 Shaoqi Hou , Zong-Hong Zhu

The investigation of non-vacuum cosmological backgrounds containing black holes is greatly enhanced by the Kiselev solution. This solution plays a crucial role in understanding the properties of the background and its relationship with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-15 H. Hadi , Amin Rezaei Akbarieh , David F. Mota

The Rindler horizon in Minkowski spacetime can be implanted with supertranslation hair by a matter shock wave without planar symmetry, and the hair is observable as a supertranslation memory on the Rindler family of uniformly linearly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-20 Sanved Kolekar , Jorma Louko

In this paper, we study the gravitational wave (GW) memory effect for a black hole embedded in a dark matter halo described by a Hernquist-type density profile, both with and without a spike. We first solve the geodesic equations in this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-02 Soumya Bhattacharya , Chiranjeeb Singha

The Bondi-van der Burg-Metzner-Sachs (BMS) group, as the asymptotic symmetry group of asymptotically flat spacetimes, plays a central role in connecting infrared structures of gravity with soft theorems and gravitational memory. In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-03 Nihar Ranjan Ghosh , Malay K. Nandy

The memory effect is a prediction of general relativity on the same footing as the existence of gravitational waves. The memory effect is understood at future null infinity as a transition induced by null radiation from a Poincar\'e vacuum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-15 Geoffrey Compère

Gravitational memory effects are predictions of general relativity that are characterized by an observable effect that persists after the passage of gravitational waves. In recent years, they have garnered particular interest, both due to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-30 Alexander M. Grant , Keefe Mitman

Gravitational wave memory is studied in the context of a certain class of braneworld wormholes. Unlike other wormhole geometries, this novel class of wormholes do not require any exotic matter fields for its traversability. First, we study…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-02 Indranil Chakraborty , Soumya Bhattacharya , Sumanta Chakraborty

The memory effect at null infinity, $\mathcal{I}^+$, can be defined in terms of the permanent relative displacement of test particles (at leading order in $1/r$) resulting from the passage of a burst of gravitational radiation. In $D=4$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-01 Adel A. Rahman , Robert M. Wald

The metrics of gravitational shock waves for a Schwarzschild black hole in ordinary coordinates and for a Kerr black hole in Boyer-Lindquist coordinates are derived. The Kerr metric is discussed for two cases: the case of a Kerr black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-09 Koichi HAYASHI , Toshiharu SAMURA

It is shown that black hole spacetimes in classical Einstein gravity are characterized by, in addition to their ADM mass $M$, momentum $\vec P$, angular momentum $\vec J$ and boost charge $\vec K$, an infinite head of supertranslation hair.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-28 Stephen W. Hawking , Malcolm J. Perry , Andrew Strominger

We study horizon shells and soldering freedom for extreme black holes and how supertranslation-like Bondi-Metzner-Sachs (BMS) symmetries appear as soldering transformations. Further, for a null shell placed infinitesimally close to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-09-02 Srijit Bhattacharjee , Shailesh Kumar

It has been shown recently that extreme Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m black holes perturbed by a minimally coupled, free, massless scalar field have permanent scalar hair. The hair - a conserved charge calculated at the black hole's event horizon…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-19 Lior M. Burko , Gaurav Khanna , Subir Sabharwal

Gravitational wave memory is an important prediction of general relativity. The detection of the gravitational wave memory can be used to test general relativity and to deduce the property of the gravitational wave source. Quantitative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-07 Xiaolin Liu , Xiaokai He , Zhoujian Cao

In a Rindler-type coordinate system spanned in a region outside of a black hole horizon, we have nonvanishing classical holographic charges as soft hairs on the horizon for stationary black holes. Taking a large black hole mass limit, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-12 Masahiro Hotta , Jose Trevison , Koji Yamaguchi
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