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General relativity predicts that the Kerr black hole develops qualitatively new and surprising features in the limit of maximal spin. Most strikingly, the region of spacetime near the event horizon stretches into an infinitely long throat…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-17 Daniel Kapec , Alexandru Lupsasca

Massive bosonic fields in the background of a Kerr black hole can either trigger superradiant instabilities (black-hole bombs) or form equilibrium configurations corresponding to pure bound states, known as stationary scalar clouds. Here,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-10 Marzena Ciszak , Francesco Marino

Gravity simulators are laboratory systems where small excitations like sound or surface waves behave as fields propagating on a curved spacetime geometry. The analogy between gravity and fluids requires vanishing viscosity, a feature…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-26 Patrik Švančara , Pietro Smaniotto , Leonardo Solidoro , James F. MacDonald , Sam Patrick , Ruth Gregory , Carlo F. Barenghi , Silke Weinfurtner

Wave scattering phenomena are ubiquitous in almost all Sciences, from Biology to Physics. Interestingly, it has been shown many times that different physical systems are the stage to the same processes. The discoveries of such analogies…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-04 Theo Torres

We show that black holes can be quantized in an intuitive and elegant way with results in agreement with conventional knowledge of black holes by using Bohr's idea of quantizing the motion of an electron inside the atom in quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-10-03 Xiao-Gang He , Bo-Qiang Ma

Exact solutions describing rotating black holes can offer important tests for alternative theories of gravity, motivated by the dark energy and dark matter problems. We present an analytic rotating black hole solution for a class of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-10 Francesco Filippini , Gianmassimo Tasinato

In this paper, we study the thermodynamic features of a rotating black hole surrounded by perfect fluid dark matter. We analyze the critical behavior of the black hole by considering the known relationship between pressure and cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-03 Seyed Hossein Hendi , Azadeh Nemati , Kai Lin , Mubasher Jamil

Quasi-stationary (i.e. parametric) transitions from rotating equilibrium configurations of fluid bodies to rotating black holes are discussed. For the idealized model of a rotating disc of dust, analytical results derived by means of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-15 Reinhard Meinel

This work makes the first ever attempt to understand the influence of the black hole background space-time in determining the fundamental properties of the embedded relativistic acoustic geometry. To accomplish such task, the role of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-04 Hung-Yi Pu , Ishita Maiti , Tapas Kumar Das , Hsiang-Kuang Chang

Quantum information transfer necessary to reconcile black hole evaporation with quantum mechanics, while approximately preserving regular near-horizon geometry, can be simply parameterized in terms of couplings of the black hole internal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-17 Steven B. Giddings

Astrophysical black holes are embedded in surrounding dark and baryonic matter that can measurably perturb the spacetime. We construct a self-consistent spacetime describing a slowly rotating black hole embedded in an external matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-12 Sayak Datta , Chiranjeeb Singha

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

Regular rotating black holes are usually described by a metric of the Kerr-Schild form with a particular mass function that is chosen to avoid the ring singularity of the Kerr metric and which approaches the Kerr metric at the asymptotic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-01 Marcos L. W. Basso , Vilson T. Zanchin

The quantum diffusion of a vortex in a two-component quantum fluid of light is investigated. In these systems, the Kerr nonlinearity promotes interactions between the photons, displaying features that are analogue of a Bose-Einstein…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-12-12 M. Roldão , J. L. Figueiredo , P. Monteiro , J. T. Mendonça , H. Terças

The Kerr metric is a vacuum solution of the Einstein equations outside of a rotating black hole, but what interior matter is actually rotating and sourcing the Kerr geometry? Here, we describe a rotating exotic matter which can source the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-26 Ram Brustein , A. J. M. Medved

In this study, we investigate a nonlinear mechanism driving the formation of scalarized rotating black holes within a scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity framework that includes an additional squared Gauss-Bonnet term. With the specific coupling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-23 Shoupan Liu , Yunqi Liu , Yan Peng , Cheng-Yong Zhang

The hydrodynamic behaviour of perfect fluid orbiting around black holes in spherically symmetric spacetime for various alternative gravity theories has been investigated. For this purpose we have assumed an uniform distribution for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-11 Sumanta Chakraborty

We consider the membrane viewpoint a l\`a Parikh-Wilczek on the Kerr solution for a rotating black hole. Computing the stress-energy tensor of a close-to-the-horizon stretched membrane and comparing it to the stress-tensor of a viscous…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-05 A. M. Arslanaliev , A. J. Nurmagambetov

In the study of "holographic complexity", upper bounds on the rate of growth of the (specific) complexity of field theories with holographic duals have attracted much attention. Underlying these upper bounds there are inequalities relating…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-03 Brett McInnes

Fluids in external gravity may oscillate with frequencies characteristic of the epicyclic motions of test particles. We explicitly demonstrate that global oscillations of a slender, perfect fluid torus around a Kerr black hole admit…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Marek A. Abramowicz , Omer M. Blaes , Jiri Horak , Wlodek Kluzniak , Paola Rebusco