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The standard Black Holes (BHs) in General Relativity, as well as other ultra-compact objects (with or without an event horizon) admit planar circular photon orbits. These light rings (LRs) determine several spacetime properties. For…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-02 Pedro V. P. Cunha , Carlos A. R. Herdeiro , Eugen Radu

Using the Ernst formalism, a novel solution of vacuum general relativity (GR) was recently obtained [1], describing a Schwarzschild black hole (BH) immersed in a nonasymptotically flat rotating background, dubbed swirling universe, with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-30 Zeus S. Moreira , Carlos A. R. Herdeiro , Luís C. B. Crispino

Motivated by recent results reporting the instability of horizonless objects with stable light rings, we revisit the linearized stability of such structures. In particular, we consider an exterior Kerr spacetime truncated at a surface where…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-16 Zhen Zhong , Vitor Cardoso , Elisa Maggio

For a stationary, axisymmetric, asymptotically flat, ultra-compact [$i.e.$ containing light-rings (LRs)] object, with a $\mathbb{Z}_2$ north-south symmetry fixing an equatorial plane, we establish that the structure of timelike circular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-19 Jorge F. M. Delgado , Carlos A. R. Herdeiro , Eugen Radu

The stability and other physical properties of a class of regular black holes, quasiblack holes, and other electrically charged compact objects are investigated in the present work. The compact objects are obtained by solving the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-12 Angel D. D. Masa , Enesson S. de Oliveira , Vilson T. Zanchin

Recently, two types of static black hole models that retain general covariance have been proposed within the Hamiltonian constraint approach to effective quantum gravity (EQG). We have studied the light rings and shadows of these black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-08 Wentao Liu , Di Wu , Jieci Wang

Various higher-dimensional black holes have been shown to be unstable by studying linearized gravitational perturbations. A simpler method for demonstrating instability is to find initial data that describes a small perturbation of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 Pau Figueras , Keiju Murata , Harvey S. Reall

Most of the properties of black holes can be mimicked by horizonless compact objects such as gravastars and boson stars. We show that these ultra-compact objects develop a strong ergoregion instability when rapidly spinning. Instability…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Vitor Cardoso , Paolo Pani , Mariano Cadoni , Marco Cavaglia

A (charged) rotating black hole may be unstable against a (charged) massive scalar field perturbation due to the existence of superradiance modes. The stability property depends on the parameters of the system. In this paper, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-02 Jia-Mao Lin , Ming-Jian Luo , Zi-Han Zheng , Lei Yin , Jia-Hui Huang

The aim of this work is to improve understanding of the resonant spectra of black holes under perturbations arising from e.g. compact objects or accretion disks in their vicinity. It is known that adding a weak perturbation to the radial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-09 T. Torres , S. R. Dolan

We have studied the spacetime of a Kerr black hole immersed in Melvin magnetic field, and found not only unstable light rings could exist, but also stable light rings could exist. Both the prograde and retrograde unstable light rings…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-13 Mingzhi Wang , Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing

Self-gravitating relativistic disks around black holes can form as transient structures in a number of astrophysical scenarios such as binary neutron star and black hole-neutron star coalescences, as well as the core-collapse of massive…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-23 Oleg Korobkin , Ernazar B. Abdikamalov , Erik Schnetter , Nikolaos Stergioulas , Burkhard Zink

The stability of a class of electrically charged fluid spheres under radial perturbations is studied. Among these spheres there are regular stars, overcharged tension stars, regular black holes, quasiblack holes, and quasinonblack holes,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-31 Angel D. D. Masa , José P. S. Lemos , Vilson T. Zanchin

We discuss static, spherically symmetric solutions to the 5D Einstein-Maxwell equations (belonging to wide classes of multidimensional solutions known at least from the 1990s) and select among them those which must observationally look like…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-16 Kirill A. Bronnikov , Sergei V. Bolokhov , Milena V. Skvortsova

Viable alternatives to astrophysical black holes include hyper-compact objects without horizon, such as gravastars, boson stars, wormholes and superspinars. The authors have recently shown that typical rapidly-spinning gravastars and boson…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Vitor Cardoso , Paolo Pani , Mariano Cadoni , Marco Cavaglia

"Almost all" seems to be known about isolated stationary black holes in asymptotically flat space-times and about the behaviour of {\em test} matter and fields in their backgrounds. The black holes likely present in galactic nuclei and in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-07 Oldřich Semerák , Petra Suková

The theoretical description of compact structures that share some key features with mass varying particles allows for a simple analysis of equilibrium and stability for massive stellar bodies. We investigate static, spherically symmetric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-05 Alex E. Bernardini , O. Bertolami

The ergoregion instability is known to affect very compact objects that rotate very rapidly and do not possess a horizon. We present here a detailed analysis on the relevance of the ergoregion instability for the viability of gravastars.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Cecilia B. M. H. Chirenti , Luciano Rezzolla

Regular black holes represent a conservative model in which the classical singularity is replaced by a non-singular core without necessarily modifying the spacetime outside the trapping horizon. Given the possible lack of phenomenological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-29 Francesco Di Filippo , Raúl Carballo-Rubio , Stefano Liberati , Costantino Pacilio , Matt Visser

Tidal forces acting on orbiting bodies arise from inhomogeneities in the gravitational field, generating stresses that can deform or even disrupt these objects. In this work, we analyze relativistic tidal forces associated with ultracompact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-20 Victor F. C. Vieira , Rafael P. Bernar , Caio F. B. Macedo