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Light bosonic fields are ubiquitous in extensions of the Standard Model. Even when minimally coupled to gravity, these fields might evade the assumptions of the black-hole no-hair theorems and give rise to spinning black holes which can be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-21 Nicola Franchini , Paolo Pani , Andrea Maselli , Leonardo Gualtieri , Carlos A R Herdeiro , Eugen Radu , Valeria Ferrari

We study the orbital structure and precession dynamics of neutral test particles in the magnetized Kerr black hole (MKBH) spacetime-an exact electrovacuum solution of the Einstein-Maxwell equations that self-consistently incorporates the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-12 Karthik Iyer , Chandrachur Chakraborty

We explore the universal symmetries of the black hole photon ring in a wide range of non-Kerr spacetimes, including the Kerr-Newman, Kerr-Sen, Kerr-Bardeen, and Kerr-Hayward metrics. The demagnification exponent ($\gamma$) controls the size…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-27 Rahul Kumar Walia , Prashant Kocherlakota , Dominic O. Chang , Kiana Salehi

Context. Some microquasars exhibit millisecond quasi-periodic oscillations (QPO) that are likely related to phenomena occuring in the immediate vicinity of the central black hole. Oscillations of accretion tori have been proposed to model…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 F. H. Vincent , G. P. Mazur , O. Straub , M. A. Abramowicz , W. Kluzniak , G. Torok , P. Bakala

The gravitational field around an astrophysical black hole (BH) is thought to be described by the Kerr spacetime, which is a solution of the Einstein equation. Signatures of binary black hole (BBH) coalescence in gravitational waves (GW)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-03 Debtroy Das , Swarnim Shashank , Cosimo Bambi

We study the quasinormal mode spectrum and grey-body factors of black holes in an effectively quantum-corrected spacetime, focusing on the influence of near-horizon modifications on observable quantities. Employing scalar, electromagnetic,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-24 Bekir Can Lütfüoğlu , Erdinç Ulaş Saka , Abubakir Shermatov , Javlon Rayimbaev , Inomjon Ibragimov , Sokhibjan Muminov

We study the dynamics and relativistic precessions of massive particles on spherical orbits around Kerr-MOG black holes in scalar-tensor-vector gravity (STVG). By employing the Hamilton-Jacobi formalism, we derive conserved quantities and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-18 Hui-Min Wang

In the presence of a rotating Kerr black hole, we investigate hydrodynamics of the massive particles and massless photons, to construct relations among number density, pressure and internal energy density of the massive particles and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-28 Soon-Tae Hong

We develop a new method to measure neutron star parameters and derive constraints on the equation of state of dense matter by fitting the frequencies of simultaneous Quasi Periodic Oscillation modes observed in the X-ray flux of accreting…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-02 Andrea Maselli , George Pappas , Paolo Pani , Leonardo Gualtieri , Sara Motta , Valeria Ferrari , Luigi Stella

The ringdown phase of a binary black hole merger is modelled by the quasi-normal modes of a perturbed Kerr black hole. According to the black hole no-hair theorem, the emitted ringdown spectra are constrained by the mass and spin of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-12 Zaryab Ahmed , Shilpa Kastha , Alex B. Nielsen

Gravitational waves from the explosive merger of distant black holes are encoded with details regarding the complex extreme-gravity spacetime present at their source. Famously described by the Kerr spacetime metric for rotating black holes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-29 Zack Carson , Kent Yagi

An impressive feature of loop quantum gravity (LQG) is that it can elegantly resolve both the big bang and black hole singularities. By using the Newman-Janis algorithm, a regular and effective rotating self-dual black hole(SDBH) metric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-03 Cheng Liu , Haiguang Xu , Hoongwah Siew , Tao Zhu , Qiang Wu , Yuanyuan Zhao

We investigate the dynamics of test particles, perturbations, and greybody factors within the framework of a Bardeen-like AdS black hole (BH) with a phantom global monopole. This study explores the interactions between nonlinear…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-01 Faizuddin Ahmed , Ahmad Al-Badawi , İzzet Sakallı , Sara Kanzi

We analyze all available RXTE data on a sample of 13 low mass X-ray binaries with known neutron star spin that are not persistent pulsars. We carefully measure the correlations between the centroid frequencies of the quasi-periodic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-18 Marieke van Doesburgh , Michiel van der Klis

In this paper, we investigate the frame-dragging effect on an accretion disk and test gyroscope orbiting around a rotating regular black hole with a Minkowski core. Firstly, we perturb a bound timelike circular orbit around the black hole,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-03 Meng-He Wu , Hong Guo , Xiao-Mei Kuang

We study the spin precession of a test gyroscope attached to a stationary observer in Kerr-Newman spacetime to distinguish a naked singularity from a black hole. Extending earlier work on Kerr, we examine how the electric charge \(Q\)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-24 Arindam Kumar Chatterjee , Parthapratim Pradhan

The motion of classical spinning test particles in the equatorial plane of a Kerr black hole is considered for the case where the particle spin is perpendicular to the equatorial plane. We review some results of our recent research of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-16 O. Yu. Tsupko , G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan , P. I. Jefremov

The black hole mass and spin estimates assuming various specific models of the 3:2 high frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (HF QPOs) have been carried out in Torok et al. (2005, 2011). Here we briefly summarize some current points.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Andrea Kotrlova , Gabriel Torok , Eva Sramkova , Zdenek Stuchlik

Gravitational wave (GW) observations of binary black hole (BBH) mergers provide a unique opportunity to probe the nature of spacetime in the strong-field and dynamical regime. We present updated constraints on deviations from the Kerr…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-20 Debtroy Das , Swarnim Shashank , Cosimo Bambi

Quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) are observed in the optical flux of some polars with typical periods of 1 to 3 s but none have been observed yet in X-rays where a significant part of the accreting energy is released. QPOs are expected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-24 J. M. Bonnet-Bidaud , M. Mouchet , C. Busschaert , E. Falize , C. Michaut