Sound horizon of accretion onto a Kerr black hole

Two accretion modes (disclike and Bondi type), based on a discontinuous change in location of the sound horizon, exist generally for accretion onto a Kerr black hole, except for the case of a corotating accretion flow onto a very rapidly rotating hole, in which only Bondi-type mode is possible.     

Thin accretion disk around a four-dimensional Einstein- Gauss-Bonnet black hole

Recently,a novel four-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet(4 EGB) theory of gravity was proposed by Glavan and Lin [D.Glavan and C.Lin,Phys.Rev.Lett.124,081301(2020)],which includes a regularized GaussBonnet term using the re-scalaring of the Gauss-Bonnet coupling constant α→α/(D-4) in the limit D→4.This theory has also been reformulated to a specific class of the Homdeski theory with an additional scalar degree of freedom and to a spatial covariant version with a Lagrangian multiplier,which can eliminate the scalar mode.Here,we study the physical properties of the electromagnetic radiation emitted from a thin accretion disk around a static spherically symmetric black hole in 4 EGB gravity.For this purpose,we assume the disk is in a steady-state and in hydrodynamic and thermodynamic equilibrium,so that the emitted electromagnetic radiation is a black body spectrum.We study in detail the effects of the Gauss-Bonnet coupling constant α in 4 EGB gravity on the energy flux,temperature distribution,and electromagnetic spectrum of the disk.With an increase in the parameter α,the energy flux,temperature distribution,and electromagnetic spectrum of the accretion disk all increase.We also show that the accretion efficiency increases with the growth of the parameter α.Our results indicate that the thin accretion disk around a static spherically symmetric black hole in 4 EGB gravity is hotter,more luminous,and more efficient than that around a Schwarzschild black hole with the same mass for positive α,while it is cooler,less luminous,and less efficient for negative α.     

Thin accretion disk around a Kaluza-Klein black hole with squashed horizons

We study the accretion process in the thin disk around a squashed Kaluza-Klein black hole and probe the effects of the extra dimensional scale ρ₀ on the physical properties of the disk. Our results show that with the increase of the parameter ρ₀, the energy flux, the conversion efficiency, the radiation temperature, the spectra luminosity and the spectra cut-off frequency of the thin accretion disk decrease, but the inner border of the disk increases. This implies that the extra dimension scale imprints in the mass accretion process in the disk.     

Properties of a thin accretion disk around a rotating non-Kerr black hole

We study the accretion process in the thin disk around a rotating non-Kerr black hole with a deformed parameter and an unbound rotation parameter. Our results show that the presence of the deformed parameter ? modifies the standard properties of the disk. For the case in which the black hole is more oblate than a Kerr black hole, the larger deviation leads to the smaller energy flux, the lower radiation temperature and the fainter spectra luminosity in the disk. For the black hole with positive deformed parameter, we find that the effect of the deformed parameter on the disk becomes more complicated. It depends not only on the rotation direction of the black hole and the orbit particles, but also on the sign of the difference between the deformed parameter ?   and a certain critical value _?c${?}_c$. These significant features in the mass accretion process may provide a possibility to test the no-hair theorem in the strong-field regime in future astronomical observations.     

Observable acceleration of jets by a Kerr black hole

In the framework of a model based on the gravitational field of the Kerr black hole, we turn to investigate the kinematic behavior of extragalactic jets. We analytically calculate the observable velocities and accelerations along any geodesic. Then, by numerical calculations, we apply our results to a geodesic, typical of the M87 jet, and probe our results by confrontation to recent observations. A transition from non-relativistic to ultrarelativistic speeds at subparsec scale is highlighted. This transition comes sooner and more abruptly than in models based on magnetic paradigm, which indicates that we need a weaker magnetic field to explain observed synchrotron radiation. We attribute the ejection phenomenon to the repulsive effect of the gravitomagnetic Kerr field.     

Nonthermal radiation from nonstationary Kerr black hole

A crossing of the positive and negative Dirac energy levels occurs near a nonstationary Kerr black hole. The maximum value of the energy of a particle in the nonthermal radiation depends not only on the dragging velocity, but also the evaporation rate and the event horizon shape of the black hole.     

Internal electron-positron pair production from electric monopole transitions

The yield curve of the reaction⁵⁶Fe(p,γ)⁵⁷Co has been measured over the energy rangeE _p =1,300–1,900 keV and the decay of nine resonances has been investigated. For twelve of the resonances the strengths have been determined. The angular distributions of the gamma rays have been recorded for resonances atE _p =1,599, 1,623, 1,643 and 1,649 keV, giving spin-parity assignmentsJ ^π=3/2^? for all four resonances. The resonances atE _p =1,623, 1,643 and 1,649 keV have been identified as the split analogue resonances of the 367 (J ^π=3/2^?) states in⁵⁷Fe. TheM1 transition strengths to the corresponding antianalogue states have been measured and compared with theoretical predictions.     

Circular geodesics and accretion disk in the spacetime of a black hole including global monopole

We study circular time-like geodesics in the spacetime of a black hole including global monopole. We show that when the range of parameter changed the properties of the circular geodesics and the radiation of accretion disks are different. It follows that the properties of the accretion disk around black hole including global monopole can be different from that of a disk around Schwarzschild black hole.     

Non-thermal Hawking radiation from the Kerr black hole

We present a short and direct derivation of Hawking radiation by using the Damour-Ruffini method, as taking into account the self-gravitational interaction from the Kerr black hole. It is found that the radiation is not exactly thermal, and because the derivation obeys conservation laws, the non-thermal Hawking radiation can carry information from the black hole. So it can be used to explain the black hole information paradox, and the process satisfies unitary.     

Non-thermal Hawking radiation from the Kerr black hole

We present a short and direct derivation of Hawking radiation by using the Damour-Ruffini method, as taking into account the self-gravitational interaction from the Kerr black hole. It is found that the radiation is not exactly thermal, and because the derivation obeys conservation laws, the non-thermal Hawking radiation can carry information from the black hole. So it can be used to explain the black hole information paradox, and the process satisfies unitary.     

Gravitational radiation from an extreme Kerr black hole

We analytically investigate gravitational radiation induced by a test particle falling into an extreme Kerr black hole. Assuming the radiation is dominated by the infinite sequence of quasi-normal modes which has the limiting frequencym/(2M), wherem is an azimuthal eigenvalue andM is the mass of the black hole. we find the radiated energy diverges logarithmically in time. Then we evaluate the back reaction to the black hole by appealing to the energy and angular momentum conservation laws. We find the radiation has a tendency to increase the ratio of the angular momentum to mass of the black hole, which is completely different from the non-extreme case, while the contribution of the test particle is to decrease it.     

Formation of a Kerr black hole from two stringy NUT objects

In this paper we show that an isolated Kerr black hole can be interpreted as arising from a pair of identical counter-rotating NUT objects placed on a symmetry axis at the appropriate critical distance from each other.     

Matter accretion onto a conformal gravity black hole

The European Physical Journal C - We describe recent developments of the public computer code HiggsBounds. In particular, these include the incorporation of LHC Higgs search results from Run 2 at a...     

A boosted Kerr black hole solution and the structure of a general astrophysical black hole

A solution of Einstein’s vacuum field equations that describes a boosted Kerr black hole relative to an asymptotic Lorentz frame at future null infinity is derived. The solution has three parameters (mass, rotation and boost) and corresponds to the most general configuration that an astrophysical black hole must have; it reduces to the Kerr solution when the boost parameter is zero. In this solution the ergosphere is north-south asymmetric, with dominant lobes in the direction opposite to the boost. However the event horizon, the Cauchy horizon and the ring singularity—which are the core of the black hole structure—do not alter, being independent of the boost parameter. Possible consequences for astrophysical processes connected with Penrose processes in the asymmetric ergosphere are discussed.     

Mechanism of electron-positron pair production by high-energy photons in a single crystal

A mechanism of pair production by photons in an electric field of the axes (planes) of a single crystal is discussed. Simple expressions for the process probability and spectral distribution at κ?1 are presented. An analysis of conditions to observe the effect is made.     

Hawking radiation of scalar and Dirac quanta from a Kerr black hole

Unruh’s technique of replacing collapse by boundary conditions on the past horizon (theξ-quantisation scheme) for the derivation of the well-known Hawking radiation is extended to the Kerr black hole for the scalar and especially for the spin half field. The expectation value of the energy momentum tensor is evaluated asymptotically in theξ-vacuum state yielding explicitly the net Hawking flux of scalar and spin half quanta. The appropriate statistical distribution that emerges naturally for Dirac quanta validates the ξ-scheme for fermions and confirms the association of temperature with a Kerr black hole.     

Implications of a viscosity bound on black hole accretion

Motivated by the viscosity bound in gauge/gravity duality, we consider the ratio of shear viscosity (η) to entropy density (s  ) in black hole accretion flows. We use both an ideal gas equation of state and the QCD equation of state obtained from lattice for the fluid accreting onto a Kerr black hole. The QCD equation of state is considered since the temperature of accreting matter is expected to approach ¹⁰¹² K${10}^{12}\text{K}$ in certain hot flows. We find that in both the cases η/s$\eta /s$ is small only for primordial black holes and several orders of magnitude larger than any known fluid for stellar and supermassive black holes. We show that a lower bound on the mass of primordial black holes leads to a lower bound on η/s$\eta /s$ and vice versa. Finally we speculate that the Shakura–Sunyaev viscosity parameter should decrease with increasing density and/or temperatures.