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This paper investigates the orbital dynamics and gravitational wave radiation characteristics of neutral test particles around a static spherically symmetric charged black hole (BH) in 4D Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (4D-EGB) gravity theory. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-05 Liping Meng , Zhaoyi Xu , Meirong Tang

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

In this article we calculate the total angular momentum for Kerr space-time for slow rotations. In order to analyze the role of such quantity we apply Weyl quantization method to obtain a quantum equation for the z-component of the angular…

General Physics · Physics 2018-08-27 S. C. Ulhoa , E. P. Spaniol , R. G. G. Amorim

We present the main aspects of the adiabatic theory and show that it can be used to study the motion of test particles in general relativity. The theory is based upon the use of vector elements of the orbits and adiabatic invariants. To…

In Einstein-Maxwell theory, according to classic uniqueness theorems, the most general stationary black-hole solution is the axisymmetric Kerr-Newman metric, which is defined by three parameters: mass, spin and electric charge. The radial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-10-02 Paolo Pani , Emanuele Berti , Leonardo Gualtieri

We investigate the dynamics of the Papapetrou equations in Kerr spacetime. These equations provide a model for the motion of a relativistic spinning test particle orbiting a rotating (Kerr) black hole. We perform a thorough parameter space…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Michael D. Hartl

This chapter provides a brief introduction to the Kerr spacetime and rotating black holes, touching on the most common coordinate representations of the spacetime metric and the key features of the geometry -- the presence of horizons and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-01-15 Matt Visser

We formulate quantum mechanics in spacetimes with real-order fractional geometry and more general factorizable measures. In spacetimes where coordinates and momenta span the whole real line, Heisenberg's principle is proven and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-10-18 Gianluca Calcagni , Giuseppe Nardelli , Marco Scalisi

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 spacetimes which deviate from the Kerr metric have been proposed in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-16 Tim Johannsen

The motion of charged test-particles in the gravitational field of a rotating and electromagnetically charged black hole as described by the Kerr-Newman metric is considered. We completely classify the colatitudinal and radial motion on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-28 Eva Hackmann , Hongxiao Xu

Black holes are an ubiquitous end state of stellar evolution and successfully explain some of the most extreme physics encountered in astronomical observations. The Kerr geometry is the known exact solution to Einstein's equations for a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-05-14 Michael Grudich

We analyze the properties of circular orbits of test particles on the equatorial plane of a rotating central mass whose gravitational field is described by the Kerr spacetime. For rotating black holes and naked singularities we explore all…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-08 Daniela Pugliese , Hernando Quevedo , Remo Ruffini

Two alternative ways of description an evolution constrained by mass-shell equation are given by the hyperbolic and the periodic angles. In the both cases the angles are proportional to the mass. The differential operators with respect to…

General Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Robert M. Yamaleev

The equations of motion of massive test particles near Kerr black holes are separable in Boyer-Lindquist coordinates, as established by Carter. This separability, however, is lost when the particles are endowed with classical spin. We show…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-04 Viktor Skoupý , Vojtěch Witzany

For a general spherically four--dimensional metric the notion of "circularity" of a family of equatorial geodesic trajectories is defined in geometrical terms. The main object turns out to be the angular--momentum function $J$ obeying a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-08 Wolfgang Graf

Treating the cosmological constant as a thermodynamic pressure, we investigate the critical behavior of a Kerr-Newman-AdS black hole system. The critical points for the van der Waals like phase transition are numerically solved. The highly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-20 Peng Cheng , Shao-Wen Wei , Yu-Xiao Liu

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

Here we are interested to study the spin-1 particle i.e., electro-magnetic wave in curved space-time, say around black hole. After separating the equations into radial and angular parts, writing them according to the black hole geometry,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

Equatorial circular geodesic orbits of neutral test particles in the exterior spacetime of a charged rotating disc of dust are analyzed in dependence of its specific charge and a relativity parameter. The charged rotating disc of dust is an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-06 David Rumler

One of the most important geodesics in a black-hole spacetime is the marginally bound spherical orbit. This critical geodesic represents the innermost spherical orbit which is bound to the central black hole. The radii $r_{\text{mb}}({\bar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-07-19 Shahar Hod