scholarly journals Shocks in relativistic viscous accretion flows around Kerr black holes

2019 ◽  
Vol 488 (2) ◽  
pp. 2412-2422 ◽  
Author(s):  
Indu K Dihingia ◽  
Santabrata Das ◽  
Debaprasad Maity ◽  
Anuj Nandi
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Shock Front ◽  
Critical Point ◽  
Parameter Space ◽  
Accretion Flows ◽  
Flow Parameters ◽  
Flow Motion ◽  
Present Formalism ◽  
Kerr Black Holes

ABSTRACT We study the relativistic viscous accretion flows around the Kerr black holes. We present the governing equations that describe the steady-state flow motion in full general relativity and solve them in 1.5D to obtain the complete set of global transonic solutions in terms of the flow parameters, namely specific energy (${\mathcal E}$), specific angular momentum (${\mathcal L}$), and viscosity (α). We obtain a new type of accretion solution which was not reported earlier. Further, we show for the first time to the best of our knowledge that viscous accretion solutions may contain shock waves particularly when flow simultaneously passes through both inner critical point (rin) and outer critical point (rout) before entering into the Kerr black holes. We examine the shock properties, namely shock location (rs) and compression ratio (R, the measure of density compression across the shock front) and show that shock can form for a large region of parameter space in ${\cal L}\!-\!{\cal E}$ plane. We study the effect of viscous dissipation on the shock parameter space and find that parameter space shrinks as α is increased. We also calculate the critical viscosity parameter (αcri) beyond which standing shock solutions disappear and examine the correlation between the black hole spin (ak) and αcri. Finally, the relevance of our work is conferred where, using rs and R, we empirically estimate the oscillation frequency of the shock front (νQPO) when it exhibits quasi-periodic (QP) variations. The obtained results indicate that the present formalism seems to be potentially viable to account for the QPO frequency in the range starting from milli-Hz to kilo-Hz as $0.386~{\rm Hz}\le \nu _{\mathrm{ QPO}} (\frac{10\, \mathrm{M}_\odot }{M_{\mathrm{ BH}}}) \le 1312$ Hz for ak = 0.99, where MBH stands for the black hole mass.

scholarly journals GLOBAL SOLUTIONS OF NEUTRINO DOMINATED ACCRETION FLOWS AROUND KERR BLACK HOLES

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 295-297
Author(s):  
LI XUE ◽  
TONG LIU ◽  
WEI-MIN GU ◽  
JU-FU LU
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Boundary Conditions ◽  
Global Solutions ◽  
Accretion Flows ◽  
Black Hole Spin ◽  
Kerr Black Holes ◽  
Inner Parts

By solving a set of coupled hydrodynamical and microphysical equations with some appropriate boundary conditions, we obtain three global solutions of typical neutrino-dominated accretion flows around different spinning black holes. Our results reveal that the effect of black hole spin on the flows is restricted within inner parts of neutrino-dominated regions.

scholarly journals Fermat’s principle in black-hole spacetimes

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (14) ◽  
pp. 1847025 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shahar Hod
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Black Hole Spacetimes ◽  
Fermat’S Principle ◽  
Kerr Black Holes ◽  
Fermat's Principle ◽  
Asymptotic Observers

Black-hole spacetimes are known to possess closed light rings. We here present a remarkably compact theorem which reveals the physically intriguing fact that these unique null circular geodesics provide the fastest way, as measured by asymptotic observers, to circle around spinning Kerr black holes.

scholarly journals Central charges for AdS black holes

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malcolm Perry ◽  
Maria J Rodriguez
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Cosmological Constant ◽  
Central Charge ◽  
Negative Cosmological Constant ◽  
Ads Black Holes ◽  
Kerr Black Holes ◽  
Distinguishing Features ◽  
Area Law ◽  
Cardy Formula

Abstract Nontrivial diffeomorphisms act on the horizon of a generic 4D black holes and create distinguishing features referred to as soft hair. Amongst these are a left-right pair of Virasoro algebras with associated charges that reproduce the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy for Kerr black holes. In this paper we show that if one adds a negative cosmological constant, there is a similar set of infinitesimal diffeomorphisms that act non-trivially on the horizon. The algebra of these diffeomorphisms gives rise to a central charge. Adding a boundary counterterm, justified to achieve integrability, leads to well-defined central charges with cL = cR. The macroscopic area law for Kerr-AdS black holes follows from the assumption of a Cardy formula governing the black hole microstates.

scholarly journals Massive scalar field perturbation on Kerr black holes in dynamical Chern–Simons gravity

2021 ◽  
Vol 81 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shao-Jun Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Scalar Field ◽  
Massive Scalar ◽  
Coupling Constant ◽  
Field Mass ◽  
Field Perturbation ◽  
Massive Scalar Field ◽  
Kerr Black Holes ◽  
Chern Simons

AbstractWe study massive scalar field perturbation on Kerr black holes in dynamical Chern–Simons gravity by performing a $$(2+1)$$ ( 2 + 1 ) -dimensional simulation. Object pictures of the wave dynamics in time domain are obtained. The tachyonic instability is found to always occur for any nonzero black hole spin and any scalar field mass as long as the coupling constant exceeds a critical value. The presence of the mass term suppresses or even quench the instability. The quantitative dependence of the onset of the tachyonic instability on the coupling constant, the scalar field mass and the black hole spin is given numerically.

Accretion onto a Black Hole

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles D. Bailyn
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Potential Energy ◽  
Gravitational Potential ◽  
Gas Flow ◽  
Gravitational Potential Energy ◽  
Spherically Symmetric ◽  
Potential Well ◽  
Accretion Flows ◽  
Flow Geometry

This chapter explores the ways that accretion onto a black hole produces energy and radiation. As material falls into a gravitational potential well, energy is transformed from gravitational potential energy into other forms of energy, so that total energy is conserved. Observing such accretion energy is one of the primary ways that astrophysicists pinpoint the locations of potential black holes. The spectrum and intensity of this radiation is governed by the geometry of the gas flow, the mass infall rate, and the mass of the accretor. The simplest flow geometry is that of a stationary object accreting mass equally from all directions. Such spherically symmetric accretion is referred to as Bondi-Hoyle accretion. However, accretion flows onto black holes are not thought to be spherically symmetric—the infall is much more frequently in the form of a flattened disk.

scholarly journals How fast can a black hole rotate?

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (12) ◽  
pp. 1544022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos A. R. Herdeiro ◽  
Eugen Radu
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Angular Momentum ◽  
Mass Formula ◽  
Linear Velocity ◽  
Asymptotically Flat ◽  
Velocity Of Light ◽  
Universal Bound ◽  
Kerr Black Holes

Kerr black holes (BHs) have their angular momentum, [Formula: see text], bounded by their mass, [Formula: see text]: [Formula: see text]. There are, however, known BH solutions violating this Kerr bound. We propose a very simple universal bound on the rotation, rather than on the angular momentum, of four-dimensional, stationary and axisymmetric, asymptotically flat BHs, given in terms of an appropriately defined horizon linear velocity, [Formula: see text]. The [Formula: see text] bound is simply that [Formula: see text] cannot exceed the velocity of light. We verify the [Formula: see text] bound for known BH solutions, including some that violate the Kerr bound, and conjecture that only extremal Kerr BHs saturate the [Formula: see text] bound.

Effect of charge and deformation parameter on energy extraction in charged non-Kerr black holes

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (16) ◽  
pp. 2040012
Author(s):  
Rehana Rahim ◽  
Khalid Saifullah
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Deformation Parameter ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Process Efficiency ◽  
Energy Extraction ◽  
Penrose Process ◽  
Kerr Black Holes ◽  
Very High

We analyze the charged Johannsen–Psaltis black hole for energy extraction via the Penrose process. Efficiency of the Penrose process is found to be dependent on the deformation parameter of the metric and charge. Doing the calculations numerically, we find that, in the nonextremal limit, presence of charge leads to lesser efficiency than the Kerr. In the extremal cases with negative deformation parameter, charge leads to a very high efficiency, higher than that of the Kerr and Johannsen–Psaltis black holes.

scholarly journals SEMICLASSICAL CORRECTIONS TO THE CARDY–VERLINDE FORMULA OF KERR BLACK HOLES

2008 ◽  
Vol 23 (13) ◽  
pp. 2047-2053 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. R. SETARE
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Central Charge ◽  
Kerr Black Hole ◽  
Gravitational Effect ◽  
The Self ◽  
Entropy Formula ◽  
Verlinde Formula ◽  
Kerr Black Holes

In this paper, we compute the corrections to the Cardy–Verlinde formula of four-dimensional Kerr black hole. These corrections are considered within the context of KKW analysis and arise as a result of the self-gravitational effect. Then we show that one can take into account the semiclassical corrections of the Cardy–Verlinde entropy formula by only redefining the Virasoro operator L0 and the central charge c.

scholarly journals AREA SPECTRUM OF KERR AND EXTREMAL KERR BLACK HOLES FROM QUASINORMAL MODES

2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (25) ◽  
pp. 1923-1932 ◽  
Author(s):  
MOHAMMAD R. SETARE ◽  
ELIAS C. VAGENAS
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Quasinormal Modes ◽  
Kerr Black Hole ◽  
Area Spectrum ◽  
The Real ◽  
Hole Area ◽  
Newman Black Hole ◽  
Discrete Area ◽  
Kerr Black Holes

Motivated by the recent interest in quantization of black hole area spectrum, we consider the area spectrum of Kerr and extremal Kerr black holes. Based on the proposal by Bekenstein and others that the black hole area spectrum is discrete and equally spaced, we implement Kunstatter's method to derive the area spectrum for the Kerr and extremal Kerr black holes. The real part of the quasinormal frequencies of Kerr black hole used for this computation is of the form mΩ where Ω is the angular velocity of the black hole horizon. The resulting spectrum is discrete but not as expected uniformly spaced. Thus, we infer that the function describing the real part of quasinormal frequencies of Kerr black hole is not the correct one. This conclusion is in agreement with the numerical results for the highly damped quasinormal modes of Kerr black hole recently presented by Berti, Cardoso and Yoshida. On the contrary, extremal Kerr black hole is shown to have a discrete area spectrum which in addition is evenly spaced. The area spacing derived in our analysis for the extremal Kerr black hole area spectrum is not proportional to ln 3. Therefore, it does not give support to Hod's statement that the area spectrum [Formula: see text] should be valid for a generic Kerr–Newman black hole.

scholarly journals Transonic accretion and winds around Pseudo-Kerr black holes andcomparison with general relativistic solutions

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abhrajit Bhattacharjee ◽  
Sandip Kumar Chakrabarti ◽  
Dipak Debnath
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Angular Momentum ◽  
Time Scale ◽  
Momentum Equation ◽  
Accretion Flows ◽  
Timing Properties ◽  
Surrounding Space ◽  
General Relativistic ◽  
Corotating Frame

Abstract Spectral and timing properties of accretion flows on a black hole depend on their density and temperature distributions, which, in turn come from the underlying dynamics. Thus, an accurate description of the flow which includes hydrodynamics and radiative transfer is a must to interpret the observational results. In the case of non-rotating black holes, Pseudo- Newtonian description of surrounding space-time enables one to make a significant progress in predicting spectral and timing properties. This formalism is lacking for the spinning black holes. In this paper, we show that there exists an exact form of ‘natural’ potential derivable from the general relativistic (GR) radial momentum equation written in the local corotating frame. Use of this potential in an otherwise Newtonian set of equations, allows us to describe transonic flows very accurately as is evidenced by comparing with solutions obtained from the full GR framework. We study the properties of the sonic points and the centrifugal pressure supported shocks in the parameter space spanned by the specific energy and the angular momentum, and compare with the results of GR hydrodynamics. We show that this potential can safely be used for the entire range of Kerr parameter −1 < a < 1 for modeling of observational results around spinning black holes. We assume the flow to be inviscid. Thus, it is non-dissipative with constant energy and angular momentum. These assumptions are valid very close to the black hole horizon as the infall time scale is much shorter as compared to the viscous time scale.

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