scholarly journals SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLES AND THE STRONG FIELD LIMIT OF GENERAL RELATIVITY

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. ZUREK ◽  
ET AL
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
General Relativity ◽  
Strong Field ◽  
Supermassive Black Holes ◽  
Field Limit ◽  
Strong Field Limit

scholarly journals Testing General Relativity with Supermassive Black Holes Using X-Ray Reflection Spectroscopy

Proceedings ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Askar B. Abdikamalov ◽  
Dimitry Ayzenberg ◽  
Cosimo Bambi ◽  
Sourabh Nampalliwar ◽  
Ashutosh Tripathi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
General Relativity ◽  
Strong Field ◽  
Supermassive Black Holes ◽  
Kerr Solution ◽  
Reflection Spectroscopy ◽  
Systematic Uncertainties ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
Spacetime Metric ◽  
The Impact

In this paper, we review our current efforts to test General Relativity in the strong field regime by studying the reflection spectrum of supermassive black holes. So far we have analyzed 11 sources with observations of NuSTAR, Suzaku, Swift, and XMM-Newton. Our results are consistent with General Relativity, according to which the spacetime metric around astrophysical black holes should be well approximated by the Kerr solution. We discuss the systematic uncertainties in our model and we present a preliminary study on the impact of some of them on the measurement of the spacetime metric.

scholarly journals Driven black holes: from Kolmogorov scaling to turbulent wakes

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomas Andrade ◽  
Christiana Pantelidou ◽  
Julian Sonner ◽  
Benjamin Withers
Keyword(s):  
Nonlinear Dynamics ◽  
Black Holes ◽  
General Relativity ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Strong Field ◽  
De Sitter ◽  
Event Horizons ◽  
Binary Mergers ◽  
Tidal Deformations ◽  
Proof Of Principle

Abstract General relativity governs the nonlinear dynamics of spacetime, including black holes and their event horizons. We demonstrate that forced black hole horizons exhibit statistically steady turbulent spacetime dynamics consistent with Kolmogorov’s theory of 1941. As a proof of principle we focus on black holes in asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetimes in a large number of dimensions, where greater analytic control is gained. We focus on cases where the effective horizon dynamics is restricted to 2+1 dimensions. We also demonstrate that tidal deformations of the horizon induce turbulent dynamics. When set in motion relative to the horizon a deformation develops a turbulent spacetime wake, indicating that turbulent spacetime dynamics may play a role in binary mergers and other strong-field phenomena.

scholarly journals Perturbative deflection angle, gravitational lensing in the strong field limit and the black hole shadow

2021 ◽  
Vol 81 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Junji Jia ◽  
Ke Huang
Keyword(s):  
Gravitational Lensing ◽  
Deflection Angle ◽  
Strong Field ◽  
Distance Effect ◽  
Critical Value ◽  
Field Limit ◽  
Perturbative Method ◽  
The Deflection Angle ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Strong Field Limit

AbstractA perturbative method to compute the deflection angle of both timelike and null rays in arbitrary static and spherically symmetric spacetimes in the strong field limit is proposed. The result takes a quasi-series form of $$(1-b_c/b)$$ ( 1 - b c / b ) where b is the impact parameter and $$b_c$$ b c is its critical value, with coefficients of the series explicitly given. This result also naturally takes into account the finite distance effect of both the source and detector, and allows to solve the apparent angles of the relativistic images in a more precise way. From this, the BH angular shadow size is expressed as a simple formula containing metric functions and particle/photon sphere radius. The magnification of the relativistic images were shown to diverge at different values of the source-detector angular coordinate difference, depending on the relation between the source and detector distance from the lens. To verify all these results, we then applied them to the Hayward BH spacetime, concentrating on the effects of its charge parameter l and the asymptotic velocity v of the signal. The BH shadow size were found to decrease slightly as l increases to its critical value, and increase as v decreases from light speed. For the deflection angle and the magnification of the images however, both the increase of l and decrease of v will increase their values.

scholarly journals Development of singularities of the Skyrme model

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (01) ◽  
pp. 61-73
Author(s):  
Michael McNulty
Keyword(s):  
Sigma Model ◽  
Blow Up ◽  
Strong Field ◽  
Skyrme Model ◽  
Nonlinear Sigma Model ◽  
Field Limit ◽  
Wave Maps ◽  
Self Similar ◽  
Similar Solutions ◽  
Strong Field Limit

The Skyrme model is a geometric field theory and a quasilinear modification of the Nonlinear Sigma Model (Wave Maps). In this paper, we study the development of singularities for the equivariant Skyrme Model, in the strong-field limit, where the restoration of scale invariance allows us to look for self-similar blow-up behavior. After introducing the Skyrme Model and reviewing what’s known about formation of singularities in equivariant Wave Maps, we prove the existence of smooth self-similar solutions to the [Formula: see text]-dimensional Skyrme Model in the strong-field limit, and use that to conclude that the solution to the corresponding Cauchy problem blows-up in finite time, starting from a particular class of everywhere smooth initial data.

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