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We develop a simple toy model for polarized images of synchrotron emission from an equatorial source around a Kerr black hole by using a semi-analytic solution of the null geodesic equation and conservation of the Penrose-Walker constant.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-31 Zachary Gelles , Elizabeth Himwich , Daniel C. M. Palumbo , Michael D. Johnson

We investigate the geodesic motion in the background of Kerr-Sen Black Hole arising in the heterotic string theory. The nature of effective potential is discussed in radial as well as latitudinal direction. A special class of spherical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-30 Rashmi Uniyal , Hemwati Nandan K. D. Purohit

We report exotic orbital phenomena of spinning test particles orbiting around a Kerr black hole, i.e., some orbits of spinning particles are asymmetrical about the equatorial plane. When a nonspinning test particle orbits around a Kerr…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-07 Wen-Biao Han , Shu-Cheng Yang

In this Letter, we study black hole area quantization in the context of gravitational wave physics. It was recently argued that black hole area quantization could be a mechanism to produce so-called echoes as well as characteristic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-29 Andrew Coates , Sebastian H. Völkel , Kostas D. Kokkotas

Spherically symmetric black holes produce, by strong field lensing, two infinite series of relativistic images, formed by light rays winding around the black hole at distances comparable to the gravitational radius. In this paper, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-02-23 V. Bozza

We consider a wide class of static spherically symmetric black holes of arbitrary dimension with a photon sphere (a hypersurface on which a massless particle can orbit the black hole on unstable circular null geodesics). This class includes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-20 Yves Décanini , Antoine Folacci , Bernard Raffaelli

We investigate the massless scalar field perturbations, including the quasinormal mode spectrum and the ringdown waveform, of a regular black hole spacetime that was derived via the Loop Quantum Gravity inspired polymer quantization of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-25 Ramin G. Daghigh , Michael D. Green , Jodin C. Morey , Gabor Kunstatter

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 deviations from the Kerr metric have been suggested to study…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-06-24 Tim Johannsen , Dimitrios Psaltis

Propagation of light in the gravitational field of self-gravitating spinning bodies moving with arbitrary velocities is discussed. The gravitational field is assumed to be "weak" everywhere. Equations of motion of a light ray are solved in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Sergei Kopeikin , Bahram Mashhoon

Quasi-spherical light cones are lightlike hypersurfaces of the Kerr geometry that are asymptotic to Minkowski light cones at infinity. We develop the equations of these surfaces and examine their properties. In particular, we show that they…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Frans Pretorius , Werner Israel

The motion of a spinning particle in the exterior of a Kerr-Newman black hole is studied. The dynamics is governed by the Mathisson-Papapetrou equations in the pole-dipole approximation, including the spin-curvature coupling to leading…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-05 Yi-Ping Chen , Tien Hsieh , Da-Shin Lee

Our aim in this work is to outline some physical consequences of the interaction between black holes and scalar field halos in terms of gravitational waves. In doing so, the black hole is taken as a static and spherically symmetric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-06 Darío Núnez , Juan Carlos Degollado , Claudia Moreno

We study a massless scalar field propagating in the background of a five-dimensional rotating black hole. We showed that in the Myers-Perry metric describing such a black hole the massless field equation allows the separation of variables.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Valeri Frolov , Dejan Stojkovic

We compute the length and timescales associated with resonant orbits in the Kerr Metric for all orbital and spin parameters. Resonance induced effects are potentially observable when the Event Horizon telescope resolves the inner structure…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-05 Jeandrew Brink , Marisa Geyer , Tanja Hinderer

The hidden Kerr/CFT proposal implies that the massless scalar wave equation in the near-region and low-frequency limit respects a hidden SL(2,R)$\times$SL(2,R) invariance in the Kerr black hole spacetime. We may use this symmetry to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Taeyoon Moon , Yun Soo Myung

Quantum higher-spin theory applied to Compton amplitudes has proven to be surprisingly useful for elucidating Kerr black hole dynamics. Here we apply the framework to compute scattering amplitudes and observables for a binary system of two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-27 Lara Bohnenblust , Lucile Cangemi , Henrik Johansson , Paolo Pichini

According to the classical Einstein-Maxwell theory of gravity and electromagnetism, a light-wave traveling in empty space-time is accompanied by a gravitational field of the pp-type. Therefore point masses are scattered by a light wave,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-13 J. W. van Holten

We investigate the prospect of using black hole spectroscopy to constrain the parameters of Horndeski gravity through observations of gravitational waves from perturbed black holes. We study the gravitational waves emitted during ringdown…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-06-18 Oliver J. Tattersall , Pedro G. Ferreira

We develop geometric optics expansion up to the subleading order for circularly polarized electromagnetic waves on curved spacetime. This subleading order geometric optics expansion, in which the conventional eikonal function is modified by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-13 Pravin Kumar Dahal

We exhibit the first analogue model of a rotating black hole constructed in the framework of nonlinear electrodynamics. The background electromagnetic field is assumed to be algebraically special and adapted to a geodesic shear-free…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-14 Érico Goulart , Eduardo Bittencourt