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Slowly Rotating Traversable Wormholes Supported by Radially Varying String‐Fluid Matter: From Regular Geometries to Photon Trajectories

open access: yesAnnalen der Physik, Volume 538, Issue 6, June 2026.
This study examines slowly rotating traversable wormholes supported by string fluids whose properties change with radius. The matter smoothly shifts from a de Sitter‐like core to a string‐dominated exterior, producing a regular, horizon‐free spacetime.
A. Errehymy   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

ASTROPHYSICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE BINARY BLACK HOLE MERGER GW150914 [PDF]

open access: yesThe Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2016
ABSTRACT The discovery of the gravitational-wave (GW) source GW150914 with the Advanced LIGO detectors provides the first observational evidence for the existence of binary black hole (BH) systems that inspiral and merge within the age of the universe.
Abbott, B. P.   +438 more
openaire   +28 more sources

New Estimates of the Spin and Accretion Rate of the Black Hole M87*

open access: yesThe Astrophysical Journal Letters
In this Letter, we use the imaging results of M87* from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) to calculate the rotational velocity of the inner edge of the accretion disk and find a value of ∼0.14 c .
Michael Drew   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Image features of spinning regular black holes based on a locality principle

open access: yesEuropean Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, 2021
To understand the true nature of black holes, fundamental theoretical developments should be linked all the way to observational features of black holes in their natural astrophysical environments. Here, we take several steps to establish such a link. We
Astrid Eichhorn, Aaron Held
doaj   +1 more source

Repeating Nuclear Transients From Repeating Partial Tidal Disruption Events

open access: yesAstronomische Nachrichten, Volume 347, Issue 5, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Extragalactic nuclear transients that exhibit repeating outbursts can be modeled as the repeated dynamical interaction between bound stars and supermassive black holes (SMBHs). A subset of these transients, with recurrence timescales of months‐to‐years, have been explained as accretion flares from the repeated tidal stripping of a star by an ...
Ananya Bandopadhyay   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Astrophysical black holes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
In this chapter, we introduce the concept of a black hole (BH) and recount the initial theoretical predictions. We then review the possible types of BHs in nature, from primordial, to stellar-mass, to supermassive BHs. Finally, we focus on the latter category and on their intricate relation with their host galaxies.
openaire   +3 more sources

Observational implications of cosmologically coupled black holes

open access: yesThe Open Journal of Astrophysics, 2023
It was recently suggested that "cosmologically coupled" black holes with masses that increase in proportion to the volume of the Universe might constitute the physical basis of dark energy.
Sohan Ghodla   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Quantifying the Impact of Relativistic Precession on Tidal Disruption Event Light Curves

open access: yesAstronomische Nachrichten, Volume 347, Issue 5, June 2026.
ABSTRACT The tidal field of a black hole can turn a star into a gas stream whose orbit can precess, especially if the a black hole is rapidly spinning. In this work, we investigate the impact of precession on the light curves of tidal disruption events (TDE).
Diego Calderón   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Supermassive Black Holes from Ultra-Strongly Self-Interacting Dark Matter [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
We consider the cosmological consequences if a small fraction (f≲0.1) of the dark matter is ultra-strongly self-interacting, with an elastic self-interaction cross-section per unit mass σ≫1 cm^2/g.
Spergel, David N.   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Black hole-naked singularity dualism and the repulsion of two Kerr black holes due to spin-spin interaction

open access: yesPhysics Letters B, 2019
We report about the possibility for interacting Kerr sources to exist in two different states – black holes or naked singularities – both states characterized by the same masses and angular momenta.
V.S. Manko, E. Ruiz
doaj   +1 more source

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