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Binary-black-hole orbits precess when the black-hole spins are mis-aligned with the binary's orbital angular momentum. The apparently complicated dynamics can in most cases be described as simple precession of the orbital angular momentum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-22 Stephen Fairhurst , Rhys Green , Charlie Hoy , Mark Hannam , Alistair Muir

We study the dynamics of spinning charged test particles orbiting a Schwarzschild black hole immersed in a test uniform magnetic field. This setup provides a simple but physically relevant framework for modeling particle motion in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-05 Misbah Shahzadi , Martin Kolos , Ondrej Zelenka , Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos

We compute a series of three-dimensional general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of accretion flows in the Kerr metric to investigate the properties of the unbound outflows that result. The overall strength of these outflows…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 John F. Hawley , Julian H. Krolik

The astrophysical consequences of the presence of a quintessence scalar field on the evolution of the horizon and on the accretion disk surrounding a static black hole, in the Scalar-Vector-Tensor version of Modified Gravity (MOG), are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-15 Haidar Sheikhahmadi , Saheb Soroushfar , S. N. Sajadi , Tiberiu Harko

Quintessential dark energy with density $\rho$ and pressure $p$ is governed by an equation of state of the form $p=-\omega_{q}\rho$ with the quintessential parameter $\omega_q\in(-1;-1/3)$. We derive the geometry of quintessential rotating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-07 Bobir Toshmatov , Zdeněk Stuchlík , Bobomurat Ahmedov

We investigate the motions of charged particles in the near horizon region of an extreme Kerr black hole with weak electromagnetic fields. There is an enhanced symmetry in the NHEK geometry. We find that when the electromagnetic field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-13 Yehui Hou , Zhenyu Zhang , Minyong Guo , Bin Chen

The lack of a positive-definite and conserved energy is a serious obstacle in the black hole stability problem. In this work, we will show that there exists a positive-definite and conserved Hamiltonian energy for axially symmetric linear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-14 Nishanth Gudapati

For an uncharged test particle in the Kerr-Bertotti-Robinson spacetime, solutions of two major types of orbits are presented, both in exact forms. First, for both prograde and retrograde motions, the radii of innermost stable circular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-15 Tower Wang

We analyze the generalized spin precession of a test gyroscope around a stationary spacetime i.e. for Kerr-MOG black hole~(BH) in scalar-tensor-vector gravity or modified gravity~(MOG). A detailed study of generalized spin frequency has…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-22 Parthapratim Pradhan

We study the timelike and null geodesic structure of a static, spherically symmetric black hole sourced by a Kalb--Ramond (KR) field coupled to nonlinear electrodynamics (NED). The geometry is characterized by the mass $M$, the magnetic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-19 Faizuddin Ahmed , Ahmad Al-Badawi , İzzet Sakallı

Magnetic fields regulate black hole (BH) accretion, governing both inflow and outflow dynamics. When a BH accumulates substantial vertical magnetic flux, it enters the magnetically arrested disk (MAD) state, where dynamically important…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-18 Koushik Chatterjee , Nicholas Kaaz , Matthew Liska , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Sera Markoff

We investigate the motion of test particles and the properties of accretion disks around rotating, accelerating black hole spacetimes with non-zero cosmological constants. To do so, we explore the impact of both rotation and acceleration on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-16 Amjad Ashoorioon , Mohammad Bagher Jahani Poshteh , Orlando Luongo

We study linear nonradial perturbations and stability of a marginal stable circular orbit (MSCO) such as the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) of a test particle in stationary axisymmetric spacetimes which possess a reflection symmetry…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-21 Toshiaki Ono , Tomohito Suzuki , Hideki Asada

The magnetorotational instability(MRI) in the Kerr spacetime is studied on a 3+1 viewpoint. The Maxwell's equations are expressed in a circularly orbiting observer's frame that co-rotates with matter in Keplerian orbits. There exist large…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Yokosawa , T. Inui

We consider the bound states of the massive scalar field around a rotating black hole immersed in the asymptotically uniform magnetic field. In the regime of slow black hole rotation, the Klein-Gordon equation allows separation of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-01-16 R. A. Konoplya

We consider the periapsis shifts of bound orbits of stars on static clouds around a black hole. The background spacetime is constructed from a Schwarzschild black hole surrounded by a static and spherically symmetric self-gravitating system…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-22 Takahisa Igata , Tomohiro Harada , Hiromi Saida , Yohsuke Takamori

The precession of a test gyroscope along stable bound equatorial plane orbits around a Kerr black hole is analyzed and the precession angular velocity of the gyro's parallel transported spin vector and the increment in precession angle…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-28 Donato Bini , Andrea Geralico , Robert T. Jantzen

In this paper we study the effective gravitational potential of Schwarzschild, Kerr, Reissner-Nordstr\"om and Kerr-Newman black holes with the relativistic corrections to evaluate the circular orbits and the Innermost Stable Circular Orbits…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-13 Eahsaan Nazir Najar , Raja Nisar Ali , Yasmeena Mushtaq , Imtiyaz Ahmad Bhat

Although the orbits of comparable mass, spinning black holes seem to defy simple decoding, we find a means to decipher all such orbits. The dynamics is complicated by extreme perihelion precession compounded by spin-induced precession. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-03-12 Janna Levin , Becky Grossman

In this paper we evolve magnetized and unmagnetized circumbinary accretion disks around supermassive black hole binaries in the relativistic regime. We use a post-Newtonian expansion to construct an analytical spacetime and determine how…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-02-03 Miguel Zilhão , Scott C. Noble , Manuela Campanelli , Yosef Zlochower