Perturbative Approach to the Inner Structure of a Rotating Black Hole

This is the first in a series of papers analyzing the inner structure of a generic rotating black hole. The black hole is assumed to evolve from the gravitational collapse of an isolated rotating object in an empty asymptotically-flat universe. This paper covers the first stages of the evolution: from the gravitational collapse and the formation of a black hole, up to the stage where the black hole settles down to Kerr. We shall discuss the generalization of Price's analysis (regarding the latetime asymptotic decay of perturbations outside the black hole) from Schwarzschild to Kerr, and present preliminary results. We then consider these external small perturbations as initial data for the evolution of perturbations inside the black hole. We demonstrate that an important region inside the black hole, which we call the late-time region (and which extends up to the inner horizon) experiences (arbitrarily) small initial perturbations. This, we argue, justifies the attempt to apply the small-perturbation approach to the black hole's interior. We discuss the physical significance of this late-time region. We shall also outline the strategy we use for evolving the perturbations from the event horizon to the inner horizon.     

Orbital and epicyclic motion of charged test particles around non-rotating Einstein-Æther black holes

The study of charged test particle dynamics in the combined black hole gravitational field and magnetic field around it could provide important theoretical insight into astrophysical processes around such compact object. We have explored the orbital and epicyclic motion of charged test particles in the background of non-rotating Einstein-Æther black holes in the presence of external uniform magnetic field. We numerically integrate the equations of motion and analyze the trajectories of the charged test particles. We examined the stability of circular orbits using effective potential technique and study the characteristics of innermost stable circular orbits. We analyze the key features of quasi-harmonic oscillations of charged test particles nearby the stable circular orbits in an equatorial plane of the black hole, and investigate the radial profiles of the frequencies of latitudinal as well as radial harmonic oscillations in dependence on the strength of magnetic field, mass of the black hole and dimensionless coupling constants of the theory. We demonstrate that the magnetic field and dimensionless parameters of the theory have strong influence on charged particle motion around Einstein-Æther black holes.     

Energy and angular momentum flow into a black hole

The area of the event horizon round a rotating black hole will increase in the presence of a non-axisymmetric or time dependent perturbation. If the perturbation is a matter field, the area increase is related to the fluxes of energy and of angular momentum into the black hole in such a way as to maintain the formula for the area in the Kerr solution. For purely gravitational perturbations one cannot define angular momentum locally but one can use the area increase and the expression for area in terms of mass and angular momentum to calculate the slowing down of a black hole caused by a non-axisymmetric distribution of matter at a distance. It seems that the coupling between the rotation of a black hole and the orbit of a particle going round it can be significant if the angular momentum of the black hole is close to its maximum possible value and if the angular velocity of the particle is nearly equal to that of the black hole.Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, supported in part by the National Science Foundation.     

Black holes in massive gravity: quasi-normal modes of scalar perturbations

We have studied quasinormal modes of scalar perturbations of a black hole in massive gravity. The parameters of the theory, such as the mass of the black hole, the scalar charge of the black hole and the spherical harmonic index is varied to see how the corresponding quasinormal frequencies change. We have also studied the massive scalar field perturbations. Most of the work is done using WKB approach while sections are devoted to compute quasinormal modes via the unstable null geodesics approach and the Pöschl–Teller approximation. Comparisons are done with the Schwarzschild black hole.     

Motion and collision of particles near Plebanski-Demianski black hole: Shadow and gravitational lensing

Here we consider accelerating and rotating charged Plebanski-Demianski (PD) class of black hole metric as a particle accelerator. We obtain the geodesic motions (timelike, null and spacelike) of particles in a non-equatorial plane around the PD black hole. We find the effective potential, energy, angular momentum, impact parameters, and discuss the circular orbit. We study the center of mass energy of two neutral particles falling from infinity to near the non-extremal horizons (event and Cauchy horizons), extremal horizon, accelerating horizons, and near the center of the PD black hole. Also, we study the collision of a particle and a massless photon. Then we find the center of mass energy due to the collision of two massless photons in the PD black hole background. We compute the redshift and blueshift of the emitted photons by massive particles while light signal travels along null geodesics towards the observer located far away from the source. We study the Penrose process, which occurs within the ergosphere, and examines the particle’s motion with its implications. Here, we analyze the PD black hole shadow’s apparent shape, which forms far away from the black hole. We study the possible visibility of the PD black hole through photon’s shadow and energy emission rate. We also investigate the effect on the shadow of the PD black hole in plasma for a distant observer. We study the strong gravitational lensing by PD black hole. Finally, we analyze the deflection angle, lens equation, position, magnification, Einstein ring and observables by taking the supermassive PD black hole in the Galaxy’s center.     

On the Quasinormal Modes for Gravitational Perturbations of the Bardeen Black Hole

We investigate gravitational perturbations on a regular black hole described by the Bardeen solution. Bardeen’s black hole is a solution of Einstein’s equations with no singularity at the origin of the radially symmetric system. Notwithstanding this regularity, the Bardeen solution still has event horizons dependent on its characteristic parameters. When a black hole is perturbed, it oscillates and gives rise to damped vibrational modes known as quasinormal modes. Here, we compute the quasinormal frequencies of a regular black hole to third order in the WKB approximation for gravitational perturbations.     

Regular Black Holes with Cosmological Constant

We present a class of regular black holes with cosmological constant A in nonlinear electrodynamics. Instead of usual singularity behind black hole horizon, all fields and curvature invariants are regular everywhere for the regular black holes. Through gauge invariant approach, the linearly dynamical stability of the regular black hole is studied. In odd-parity sector, we find that the A term does not appear in the master equations of perturbations, which shows that the regular black hole is stable under odd-parity perturbations. On the other hand, for the even-parity sector, the master equations are more complicated than the case without the cosmological constant. We obtain the sufficient conditions for stability of the regular black hole. We also investigate the thermodynamic properties of the regular black hole. and find that those thermodynamic quantities do not satisfy the differential form of first law of black hole thermodynamics. The reason for violating the first law is revealed.     

Black hole as a point radiator and recoil effect on the brane world

A small black hole attached to a brane in a higher-dimensional space emitting quanta into the bulk may leave the brane as a result of a recoil. We construct a field theory model in which such a black hole is described as a massive scalar particle with internal degrees of freedom. In this model, the probability of transition between the different internal levels is identical to the probability of thermal emission calculated for the Schwarzschild black hole. The discussed recoil effect implies that the thermal emission of the black holes, which might be created by interaction of high energy particles in colliders, could be terminated and the energy nonconservation can be observed in the brane experiments.     

Quasinormal modes for tensor and vector type perturbation of Gauss Bonnet black hole using third order WKB approach

We obtain the quasinormal modes for tensor perturbations of Gauss–Bonnet (GB) black holes in d = 5, 7, 8 dimensions and vector perturbations in d = 5, 6, 7 and 8 dimensions using third order WKB formalism. The tensor perturbation for black holes in d = 6 is not considered because of the fact that the black hole is unstable to tensor mode perturbations. In the case of uncharged GB black hole, for both tensor and vector perturbations, the real part of the QN frequency increases as the Gauss–Bonnet coupling (α′) increases. The imaginary part first decreases upto a certain value of α′ and then increases with α′ for both tensor and vector perturbations. For larger values of α′, the QN frequencies for vector perturbation differs slightly from the QN frequencies for tensorial one. It has also been shown that as α′ → 0, the quasinormal frequencies for tensor and vector perturbations of the Schwarzschild black hole can be obtained. We have also calculated the quasinormal spectrum of the charged GB black hole for tensor perturbations. Here we have found that the real oscillation frequency increases, while the imaginary part of the frequency falls with the increase of the charge. We also show that the quasinormal frequencies for scalar field perturbations and the tensor gravitational perturbations do not match as was claimed in the literature. The difference in the result increases if we increase the GB coupling.     

Hawking Radiation of Black Hole in Einstein-Proca Theory

The Hawking radiation of black hole in Einstein-Proca theory is discussed in this paper. The Einstein-Proca black hole is more general than Reissner-Nordström black hole, because Proca field is massive vector field. We calculate several quantum perturbations in this spacetime, and obtain the Hawking radiation at the horizon in Einstein-Proca theory.     

A comparative study of Dirac quasinormal modes of charged black holes in higher dimensions

In this work we study the Dirac quasinormal modes of higher dimensional charged black holes. Higher dimensional Reissner–Nordström type black holes as well as charged black holes in Einstein–Gauss–Bonnet theories are studied for fermionic perturbations using WKB method. A comparative study of the quasinormal modes in the two different theories of gravity has been performed. The behavior of the frequencies with the variation of black hole parameters as well as with the variation of space-time dimensions is studied. We also study the large multipole number limit of the black hole potential in order to look for an analytic expression for the frequencies.     

Conformal field theory interpretation of black hole quasinormal modes

We obtain exact expressions for the quasinormal modes of various spin for the Ba?ados-Teitelboim-Zanelli black hole. These modes determine the relaxation time of black hole perturbations. Exact agreement is found between the quasinormal frequencies and the location of the poles of the retarded correlation function of the corresponding perturbations in the dual conformal field theory. This then provides a new quantitative test of the anti-de Sitter/conformal field theory correspondence.     

Scalar and Dirac quasinormal modes of scalar-tensor-Gauss-Bonnet black holes

This study explores the scalar and Dirac quasinormal modes pertaining to a class of black hole solutions in the scalar-tensor-Gauss-Bonnet theory. The black hole metrics in question are novel analytic solutions recently derived in the extended version of the theory, which effectively follows at the level of the action of string theory. Owing to the existence of a nonlinear electromagnetic field, the black hole solution possesses a nonvanishing magnetic charge. In particular, the metric is capable of describing black holes with distinct characteristics by assuming different values of the ADM mass and the magnetic charge. This study investigates the scalar and Dirac perturbations in these black hole spacetimes; in particular, we focus on two different types of solutions, based on distinct horizon structures. The properties of the complex frequencies of the obtained dissipative oscillations are investigated, and the stability of the metric is subsequently addressed. We also elaborate on the possible implications of this study.     

Quasinormal Modes of the Planar Black Holes of a Particular Lovelock Theory

In this work, we study the scalar quasinormal modes of a planar black hole metric in asymptotic anti-de Sitter spacetime derived from a particular Lovelock theory. The quasinormal frequencies are evaluated by adopting the Horowitz-Hubeny method as well as a matrix formalism. Also, the temporal evolution of small perturbations is studied by using finite difference method. The roles of the dimension of the spacetime, the parameter of the metric k, as well as the temperature of the background black hole, are discussed. It is observed that the particular form of the metric leads to quasinormal frequencies whose real parts are numerically insignificant. The black hole metric is found to be stable against small scalar perturbations.     

Stationary interacting fields around an extreme Reissner-Nordström black hole

The stationary multipole solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell equations, representing interacting gauge-invariant perturbations of an extreme Reissner-Nordström black hole, are given. They are considerably simpler than perturbations of a Schwarzschild black hole. Applications are outlined.     

Physical process first law and increase of horizon entropy for black holes in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity

We establish the physical process version of the first law by studying small perturbations of a stationary black hole with a regular bifurcation surface in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity. Our result shows that when the stationary black hole is perturbed by a matter stress energy tensor and finally settles down to a new stationary state, the Wald entropy increases as long as the matter satisfies the null energy condition.     

从Schwarzschild黑洞到极端Kerr-Newman黑洞

考虑Schwarzschild和Kerr-Newman黑洞的度规场和电磁场张量,研究了落入黑洞的物理粒子.得出结论:任何物理粒子落入Schwarzschild或Kerr-Newman黑洞的演化过程要满足δA≥0和δκ≤0两个条件,得出了不能通过有限次操作使Kerr-Newman黑洞的温度降低到绝对零度,从而变成极端Kerr-Newman黑洞,刚好与第三定律相符.还讨论了Kerr-Newman黑洞趋于极端情况时,其面积的变化趋势,提出了黑洞负热容的影响以及熵的重整化问题. 关键词：     

Probing strange stars and color superconductivity by r-mode instabilities in millisecond pulsars

An astrophysically realistic model of wave dynamics in black-hole spacetimes must involve a nonspherical background geometry with angular momentum. We consider the evolution of gravitational (and electromagnetic) perturbations in rotating Kerr spacetimes. We show that a rotating Kerr black hole becomes "bald" slower than the corresponding spherically symmetric Schwarzschild black hole. Moreover, our results turn over the traditional belief (which has been widely accepted during the last three decades) that the late-time tail of gravitational collapse is universal. Our results are also of importance both to the study of the no-hair conjecture and the mass-inflation scenario (stability of Cauchy horizons).     

Particle motion and gravitational lensing in the metric of a dilaton black hole in a de Sitter universe

We consider the metric exterior to a charged dilaton black hole in a de Sitter universe. We study the motion of a test particle in this metric. Conserved quantities are identified and the Hamilton–Jacobi method is employed for the solutions of the equations of motion. At large distances from the black hole the Hubble expansion of the universe modifies the effective potential such that bound orbits could exist up to an upper limit of the angular momentum per mass for the orbiting test particle. We then study the phenomenon of strong field gravitational lensing by these black holes by extending the standard formalism of strong lensing to the non-asymptotically flat dilaton-de Sitter metric. Expressions for the various lensing quantities are obtained in terms of the metric coefficients.