scholarly journals Multiple rings in the shadow of extremely compact objects

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jingkai Wang
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Event Horizon ◽  
Electromagnetic Waves ◽  
Black Hole Physics ◽  
Compact Objects ◽  
Simple Manner ◽  
Quantitative Evidence ◽  
Exciting Opportunity ◽  
Emission Models

The Event Horizon Telescope’s image of the M87 black hole provides an exciting opportunity to study black hole physics. Since a black hole’s event horizon absorbs all electromagnetic waves, it is difficult to actively probe the horizon’s existence. However, with the help of a family of extremely compact, horizon-less objects, named “gravastars”, whose external spacetimes are nearly identical to those of black holes, one can test the absence of event horizons: absences of additional features that arise due to the existence of the gravastar, or its surface, can be used as quantitative evidence for black holes. We apply Gralla et al. approach of studying black hole images to study the images of two types of gravastars: transparent ones and reflective ones. In both cases, the transmission of rays through gravastars, or their reflections on their surfaces, leads to more rings in their images. For simple emission models, where the redshifted emissivity of the disk is peaked at a particular radius [Formula: see text], the position of a series of rings can be related in a simple manner to light ray propagation: a ring shows up around impact parameter [Formula: see text] whenever rays incident from infinity at [Formula: see text] intersects the disk at [Formula: see text]. We show that additional rings will appear in the images of transparent and reflective gravastars. In particular, one of the additional rings for the reflective gravastar is due to the prompt reflection of light on the gravastar surface, and appears to be well separated from the others. This can be an intuitive feature, which may be reliably used to constrain the reflectivity of the black hole’s horizon.

scholarly journals Event horizon scale emission models for Sagittarius A*

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (S303) ◽  
pp. 298-302
Author(s):  
J. Dexter
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Event Horizon ◽  
Near Infrared ◽  
Sagittarius A ◽  
Long Baseline ◽  
Black Hole Accretion ◽  
Emission Models ◽  
Infrared Interferometry ◽  
Sgr A

AbstractVery long baseline interferometry observations at millimeter wavelengths have detected source structure in Sgr A* on event horizon scales. Near-infrared interferometry will achieve similar resolution in the next few years. These experiments provide an unprecedented opportunity to explore strong gravity around black holes, but interpreting the data requires physical modeling. I discuss the calculation of images, spectra, and light curves from relativistic MHD simulations of black hole accretion. The models provide an excellent description of current observations, and predict that we may be on the verge of detecting a black hole shadow, which would constitute the first direct evidence for the existence of black holes.

scholarly journals Radial fall of a test particle onto an evaporating black hole

2005 ◽  
Vol 83 (10) ◽  
pp. 1001-1006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Aste ◽  
Dirk Trautmann
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Event Horizon ◽  
Test Particle ◽  
Black Hole Physics ◽  
Difficult Problem ◽  
Numerical Calculations ◽  
Computational Point ◽  
Realistic Case ◽  
Complex Cases

A test particle falling onto a classical black hole crosses the event horizon and ends up in the singularity within finite eigentime. In the "more realistic" case of a "classical" evaporating black hole, an observer falling onto a black hole observes a sudden evaporation of the hole. This illustrates the fact that the discussion of the classical process, commonly found in the literature, may become obsolete when the black hole has a finite lifetime. The situation is basically the same for more complex cases, for example, where a particle collides with two merging black holes. It should be pointed out that the model used in this paper is mainly of academic interest, since the description of the physics near a black-hole horizon still presents a difficult problem that is not yet fully understood, but our model provides a valuable possibility for students to enter the interesting field of black-hole physics and to perform numerical calculations of their own that are not very involved from the computational point of view.PACS Nos.: 04.25.–g, 04.70.–s, 04.70.Dy

Numerical simulation of the disk dynamics around the black hole: Bondi–Hoyle accretion

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (21) ◽  
pp. 1450115
Author(s):  
Fahrettin Koyuncu ◽  
Orhan Dönmez
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Mach Number ◽  
Initial Conditions ◽  
Outer Boundary ◽  
Compact Objects ◽  
Adiabatic Index ◽  
Computational Domain ◽  
X Rays ◽  
Flip Flop

We have solved the General Relativistic Hydrodynamic (GRH) equations using the high resolution shock capturing scheme (HRSCS) to find out the dependency of the disk dynamics to the Mach number, adiabatic index, the black hole rotation parameter and the outer boundary of the computational domain around the non-rotating and rotating black holes. We inject the gas to computational domain at upstream and downstream regions at the same time with different initial conditions. It is found that variety of the mass accretion rates and shock cone structures strongly depend on Mach number and adiabatic index of the gas. The shock cones on the accretion disk are important physical mechanisms to trap existing oscillation modes, thereupon these trapped modes may generate strong X-rays observed by different X-ray satellites. Besides, our numerical approach also show that the shock cones produces the flip–flop oscillation around the black holes. The flip–flop instabilities which are monitored in our simulations may explain the erratic spin behavior of the compact objects (the black holes and neutron stars) seen from observed data.

scholarly journals LUKEWARM BLACK HOLES IN QUADRATIC GRAVITY

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (14) ◽  
pp. 999-1007 ◽  
Author(s):  
JERZY MATYJASEK ◽  
KATARZYNA ZWIERZCHOWSKA
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Event Horizon ◽  
Fourth Order ◽  
Spherically Symmetric ◽  
Cosmological Horizon ◽  
De Sitter ◽  
Quadratic Gravity ◽  
De Sitter Universe ◽  
Electrically Charged

Perturbative solutions to the fourth-order gravity describing spherically-symmetric, static and electrically charged black hole in an asymptotically de Sitter universe is constructed and discussed. Special emphasis is put on the lukewarm configurations, in which the temperature of the event horizon equals the temperature of the cosmological horizon.

scholarly journals Cosmological black holes are not described by the Thakurta metric: LIGO-Virgo bounds on PBHs remain unchanged

2021 ◽  
Vol 81 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gert Hütsi ◽  
Tomi Koivisto ◽  
Martti Raidal ◽  
Ville Vaskonen ◽  
Hardi Veermäe
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Dark Matter ◽  
Compact Object ◽  
Compact Objects ◽  
Primordial Black Hole ◽  
Mass Growth ◽  
Black Hole Binaries ◽  
Physical Conditions ◽  
Accretion Physics

AbstractWe show that the physical conditions which induce the Thakurta metric, recently studied by Bœhm et al. in the context of time-dependent black hole masses, correspond to a single accreting compact object in the entire Universe filled with isotropic non-interacting dust. In such a case, accretion physics is not local but tied to the properties of the whole Universe. We show that radiation, primordial black holes or particle dark matter cannot produce the specific energy flux required for supporting the mass growth of the compact objects described by the Thakurta metric. In particular, this solution does not apply to black hole binaries. We conclude that compact dark matter candidates and their mass growth cannot be described by the Thakurta metric, and thus existing constraints on the primordial black hole abundance from the LIGO-Virgo and the CMB measurements remain valid.

3. Extrasolar tests of gravity

2017 ◽  
pp. 35-45
Author(s):  
Timothy Clifton
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Gravitational Field ◽  
Solar System ◽  
Neutron Stars ◽  
Event Horizon ◽  
Gravitational Fields ◽  
Binary Pulsars ◽  
Tests Of Gravity ◽  
Triple Star

By studying objects outside our Solar System, we can observe star systems with far greater gravitational fields. ‘Extrasolar tests of gravity’ considers stars of different sizes that have undergone gravitational collapse, including white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes. A black hole consists of a region of space-time enclosed by a surface called an event horizon. The gravitational field of a black hole is so strong that anything that finds its way inside the event horizon can never escape. Other star systems considered are binary pulsars and triple star systems. With the invention of even more powerful telescopes, there will be more tantalizing possibilities for testing gravity in the future.

Entropy bound of horizons of some regular black holes

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (10) ◽  
pp. 2050070
Author(s):  
Ujjal Debnath
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Heat Capacity ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Specific Heat ◽  
Surface Area ◽  
Event Horizon ◽  
Specific Heat Capacity ◽  
Thermodynamic Quantities ◽  
Event Horizons ◽  
Regular Black Hole

We study the four-dimensional (i) modified Bardeen black hole, (ii) modified Hayward black hole, (iii) charged regular black hole and (iv) magnetically charged regular black hole. For modified Bardeen black hole and modified Hayward black hole, we found only one horizon (event horizon) and then we found some thermodynamic quantities like the entropy, surface area, irreducible mass, temperature, Komar energy and specific heat capacity on the event horizon. We here study the bounds of the above thermodynamic quantities for these black holes on the event horizon. Then, we examine the thermodynamics stability of the black holes with some conditions. Next, we studied the charged regular black hole and magnetically charged regular black hole and found two horizons (Cauchy and event horizons) of these black holes. Then, we found the entropy, surface area, irreducible mass, temperature, Komar energy and specific heat capacity on the Cauchy and event horizons. Then, we get some conditions for thermodynamic stability/instability of the black holes. We found the radius of the extremal horizon and Christodoulou–Ruffiini mass and then analyze the above thermodynamic quantities on the extremal horizon. We calculate the sum/subtraction, product, division and sum/subtraction of inverse of surface areas, entropies, irreducible masses, temperatures, Komar energies and specific heat capacities on both the horizons. From these, we found the bounds of the above quantities on the horizons.

scholarly journals High-Mass X-ray Binaries: progenitors of double compact objects

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (S346) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Edward P. J. van den Heuvel
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Neutron Stars ◽  
Compact Objects ◽  
High Mass ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Future Evolution ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Orbital Periods ◽  
X Ray Binaries

AbstractA summary is given of the present state of our knowledge of High-Mass X-ray Binaries (HMXBs), their formation and expected future evolution. Among the HMXB-systems that contain neutron stars, only those that have orbital periods upwards of one year will survive the Common-Envelope (CE) evolution that follows the HMXB phase. These systems may produce close double neutron stars with eccentric orbits. The HMXBs that contain black holes do not necessarily evolve into a CE phase. Systems with relatively short orbital periods will evolve by stable Roche-lobe overflow to short-period Wolf-Rayet (WR) X-ray binaries containing a black hole. Two other ways for the formation of WR X-ray binaries with black holes are identified: CE-evolution of wide HMXBs and homogeneous evolution of very close systems. In all three cases, the final product of the WR X-ray binary will be a double black hole or a black hole neutron star binary.

scholarly journals Black hole and neutron star mergers in galactic nuclei: the role of triples

2019 ◽  
Vol 488 (2) ◽  
pp. 2825-2835 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giacomo Fragione ◽  
Nathan W C Leigh ◽  
Rosalba Perna
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Neutron Star ◽  
Massive Stars ◽  
Star Clusters ◽  
Galactic Nuclei ◽  
Compact Objects ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Binary Case

ABSTRACT Nuclear star clusters that surround supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in galactic nuclei are thought to contain large numbers of black holes (BHs) and neutron stars (NSs), a fraction of which form binaries and could merge by Kozai–Lidov oscillations (KL). Triple compact objects are likely to be present, given what is known about the multiplicity of massive stars, whose life ends either as an NS or a BH. In this paper, we present a new possible scenario for merging BHs and NSs in galactic nuclei. We study the evolution of a triple black hole (BH) or neutron star (NS) system orbiting an SMBH in a galactic nucleus by means of direct high-precision N-body simulations, including post-Newtonian terms. We find that the four-body dynamical interactions can increase the KL angle window for mergers compared to the binary case and make BH and NS binaries merge on shorter time-scales. We show that the merger fraction can be up to ∼5–8 times higher for triples than for binaries. Therefore, even if the triple fraction is only ∼10–$20\rm{\,per\,cent}$ of the binary fraction, they could contribute to the merger events observed by LIGO/VIRGO in comparable numbers.

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