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We use a ray-tracing technique to compute the observed spectrum of a thin accretion disk around a Kerr black hole. We include all relativistic effects such as frame-dragging, Doppler boost, gravitational redshift, and bending of light by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Li-Xin Li , Erik R. Zimmerman , Ramesh Narayan , Jeffrey E. McClintock

We investigate strong field gravitational lensing by rotating Simpson-Visser black hole, which has an additional parameter ($0\leq l/2M \leq1$), apart from mass ($M$) and rotation parameter ($a$). A rotating Simpson-Visser metric correspond…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-14 Shafqat Ul Islam , Jitendra Kumar , Sushant G. Ghosh

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

In this study, the behavior of high-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) is investigated around a Kerr black hole immersed in a uniform Bertotti-Robinson magnetic field. The motion of the test particle is analyzed by determining the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-20 Hamza Rehman , Sanjar Shaymatov , Saddam Hussain , Tao Zhu

Static, spherically symmetric black holes immersed in a dark matter halo with a Hernquist-type density profile have been derived by Cardoso et. al. in Ref. \redcite{Cardoso:2021wlq}. Using the Newman-Janis algorithm, we construct the metric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-27 Malihe Heydari-Fard , Mohaddese Heydari-Fard

This paper attempts to clarify the deep consequences of Barrow fractal black hole spacetime configurations caused by quantum gravity on neutrino pair annihilation and accretion disk dynamics. We systematically derive the analytical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-30 Yuxuan Shi , Hongbo Cheng

We performed detailed calculations of the relativistic effects acting on both the reflection continuum and the iron line from accretion discs around rotating black holes. Fully relativistic transfer of both illuminating and reprocessed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Martocchia , V. Karas , G. Matt

We establish the black-hole Meissner effect for extremal Kerr--Bertotti--Robinson (Kerr--BR) black holes, which are exact solutions of the Einstein--Maxwell equations describing a rotating black hole immersed in a uniform Bertotti--Robinson…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-03 Haryanto M. Siahaan

Using the Kerr-Schild formalism to solve the Einstein-Maxwell equations, we study energy transport due to time-dependent electromagnetic perturbations around a Kerr black hole, which may work as a mechanism to illuminate a disk located on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-09-14 Taichi Kobayashi , Kohei Onda , Akira Tomimatsu

Low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) are systems in which a low-mass companion transfers mass via Roche-lobe overflow onto a black hole (BH) or a weakly magnetized neutron star (NS). It is believed that both the solid surface and the magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Shan-Shan Weng , Shuang-Nan Zhang

A test particle possessing spin angular momentum moves along a non-geodesic path due to an additional spin-curvature force. We study the spinning test particle moving in the vicinity of the electrically charged black hole formation in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-20 Ke Yang , Bao-Min Gu , Yu-Peng Zhang

We present fully relativistic predictions for the electromagnetic emission produced by accretion disks surrounding spinning and nonspinning supermassive binary black holes on the verge of merging. We use the code Bothros to post-process…

We investigate accretion disk winds commonly observed in galactic black hole (BH) X-ray binaries (XRB), which manifest as blueshifted absorption features in X-ray spectra. We model these winds as ideal magnetohydrodynamic outflows of hot…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-30 Atsushi Tanimoto , Keigo Fukumura , Shoji Ogawa , Hirokazu Odaka , Francesco Tombesi , Marco Laurenti , Pierpaolo Condo , Alfredo Luminari

We investigate properties of iron fluorescent line arising as a result of illumination of a black hole accretion disc by an X-ray source located above the disc surface. We study in details the light-bending model of variability of the line,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-02 A. Niedzwiecki , P. T. Zycki

Context. Quasi-periodic variability has been observed in a number of X-ray binaries harboring black hole candidates. In general relativity, black holes are uniquely described by the Kerr metric and, according to the cosmic censorship…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-09 Federico García , Ignacio F. Ranea-Sandoval , Tim Johannsen

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

This study investigates the accretion process and observational signatures of thin accretion disks around a Schwarzschild black hole (BH) embedded in a Dehnen-type dark matter (DM) halo. We examine the influence of the density {\rho}_{s}…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-18 Zhi Li , Jiancheng Yu

We study the Hawking temperature, geodesic motion, and observable signatures of the accelerating Bertotti-Robinson (BR) spacetime, a vacuum black-hole solution deformed by a uniform magnetic field $B$ and an acceleration parameter $\alpha$.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-05 Ahmad Al-Badawi , Faizuddin Ahmed , Edilberto O. Silva

We describe the methodology and compute the illumination of geometrically thin accretion disks around black holes of arbitrary spin parameter $a$ exposed to the radiation of a point-like, isotropic source at arbitrary height above the disk…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-19 Keigo Fukumura , Demosthenes Kazanas

We investigate the behaviour of the accretion discs in the outbursts of the low-mass black-hole X-ray binaries (BHXRB), an overview of which we have presented previously. Almost all of the systems in which there are sufficient observations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Robert Dunn , Rob Fender , Elmar Koerding , Tomaso Belloni , Andrea Merloni