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 Fermat’s principle in constant gravitational field

2021 ◽  
pp. 2150094
Author(s):  
Joanna Gonera ◽  
Piotr Kosiński ◽  
Joanna Piwnik
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Gravitational Field ◽  
General Result ◽  
Interesting Property ◽  
Fermat’S Principle ◽  
Kerr Black Holes ◽  
Fermat's Principle

Recently (Int. J. Mod. Phys. D 27 (2018) 1847025) an interesting property of closed light rings in Kerr black holes has been noticed. We explain its origin and derive a slightly more general result.

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.

scholarly journals Supermassive black holes surrounded by dark matter modeled as anisotropic fluid: epicyclic oscillations and their fitting to observed QPOs

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (11) ◽  
pp. 059
Author(s):  
Z. Stuchlík ◽  
J. Vrba
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Dark Matter ◽  
Active Galactic Nuclei ◽  
Galactic Nuclei ◽  
Supermassive Black Holes ◽  
Anisotropic Fluid ◽  
Physical Parameters ◽  
Black Hole Spacetimes ◽  
Test Particles

Abstract Recently introduced exact solution of the Einstein gravity coupled minimally to an anisotropic fluid representing dark matter can well represent supermassive black holes in galactic nuclei with realistic distribution of dark matter around the black hole, given by the Hernquist-like density distribution. For these fluid-hairy black hole spacetimes, properties of the gravitational radiation, quasinormal ringing, and optical phenomena were studied, giving interesting results. Here, using the range of physical parameters of these spacetimes allowing for their relevance in astrophysics, we study the epicyclic oscillatory motion of test particles in these spacetimes. The frequencies of the orbital and epicyclic motion are applied in the epicyclic resonance variant of the geodesic model of quasiperiodic oscillations (QPOs) observed in active galactic nuclei to demonstrate the possibility to solve the cases where the standard vacuum black hole spacetimes are not allowing for explanation of the observed data. We demonstrate that the geodesic model can explain the QPOs observed in most of the active galactic nuclei for the fluid-hairy black holes with reasonable halo parameters.

Dynamical black holes

2020 ◽  
pp. 312-336
Author(s):  
Piotr T. Chruściel
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Cauchy Data ◽  
Einstein Equations ◽  
Black Hole Spacetimes ◽  
Alternative Approaches ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Meaningful Definition ◽  
Stability Results ◽  
Black Hole Solutions

In this chapter we review what is known about dynamical black hole-solutions of Einstein equations. We discuss the Robinson–Trautman black holes, with or without a cosmological constant. We review the Cauchy-data approach to the construction of black-hole spacetimes. We propose some alternative approaches to a meaningful definition of black hole in a dynamical spacetime, and we review the nonlinear stability results for black-hole solutions of vacuum Einstein equations.

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 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.

scholarly journals A proof of the strong cosmic censorship conjecture

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (14) ◽  
pp. 2042003
Author(s):  
Shahar Hod
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Second Law Of Thermodynamics ◽  
Cosmic Censorship ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Deterministic Theory ◽  
Black Hole Spacetimes ◽  
Generalized Second Law ◽  
Strong Cosmic Censorship ◽  
Cosmic Censorship Conjecture

The Penrose strong cosmic censorship conjecture asserts that Cauchy horizons inside dynamically formed black holes are unstable to remnant matter fields that fall into the black holes. The physical importance of this conjecture stems from the fact that it provides a necessary condition for general relativity to be a truly deterministic theory of gravity. Determining the fate of the Penrose conjecture in nonasymptotically flat black hole spacetimes has been the focus of intense research efforts in recent years. In this paper, we provide a remarkably compact proof, which is based on Bekenstein’s generalized second law of thermodynamics, for the validity of the intriguing Penrose conjecture in physically realistic (dynamically formed) curved black hole spacetimes.

scholarly journals Further evidence for the non-existence of a unified hoop conjecture

2020 ◽  
Vol 80 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shahar Hod
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Critical Mass ◽  
Compact Object ◽  
Compact Objects ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Adm Mass ◽  
Black Hole Spacetimes ◽  
Opposite Inequality ◽  
Hoop Conjecture

AbstractThe hoop conjecture, introduced by Thorne almost five decades ago, asserts that black holes are characterized by the mass-to-circumference relation $$4\pi {\mathcal {M}}/{\mathcal {C}}\ge 1$$ 4 π M / C ≥ 1 , whereas horizonless compact objects are characterized by the opposite inequality $$4\pi {\mathcal {M}}/{\mathcal {C}}<1$$ 4 π M / C < 1 (here $${\mathcal {C}}$$ C is the circumference of the smallest ring that can engulf the self-gravitating compact object in all azimuthal directions). It has recently been proved that a necessary condition for the validity of this conjecture in horizonless spacetimes of spatially regular charged compact objects is that the mass $${\mathcal {M}}$$ M be interpreted as the mass contained within the engulfing sphere (and not as the asymptotically measured total ADM mass). In the present paper we raise the following physically intriguing question: is it possible to formulate a unified version of the hoop conjecture which is valid for both black holes and horizonless compact objects? In order to address this important question, we analyze the behavior of the mass-to-circumference ratio of Kerr–Newman black holes. We explicitly prove that if the mass $${\mathcal {M}}$$ M in the hoop relation is interpreted as the quasilocal Einstein–Landau–Lifshitz–Papapetrou and Weinberg mass contained within the black-hole horizon, then these charged and spinning black holes are characterized by the sub-critical mass-to-circumference ratio $$4\pi {\mathcal {M}}/{\mathcal {C}}<1$$ 4 π M / C < 1 . Our results provide evidence for the non-existence of a unified version of the hoop conjecture which is valid for both black-hole spacetimes and spatially regular horizonless compact objects.

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.

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