Imaging a non-singular rotating black hole at the center of the galaxy

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AABD97zbMATH Open1393.83021arXiv1802.01635OpenAlexW2787363982MaRDI QIDQ4581005FDOQ4581005

Authors: F. Lamy, T. Paumard, F. H. Vincent, Eric Gourgoulhon 

Publication date: 22 August 2018

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that the rotating generalization of Hayward's non-singular black hole previously studied in the literature is geodesically incomplete, and that its straightforward extension leads to a singular spacetime. We present another extension, which is devoid of any curvature singularity. The obtained metric depends on three parameters and, depending on their values, yields an event horizon or not. These two regimes, named respectively regular rotating Hayward black hole and naked rotating wormhole, are studied both numerically and analytically. In preparation for the upcoming results of the Event Horizon Telescope, the images of an accretion torus around Sgr A*, the supermassive object at the center of the Galaxy, are computed. These images contain, even in the absence of a horizon, a central faint region which bears a resemblance to the shadow of Kerr black holes and emphasizes the difficulty of claiming the existence of an event horizon from the analysis of strong-field images. The frequencies of the co- and contra-rotating orbits at the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) in this geometry are also computed, in the hope that quasi-periodic oscillations may permit to compare this model with Kerr's black hole on observational grounds.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.01635

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zbMATH Keywords

wormholerotating black holegeodesically incompletenon-singular black holegyotoinnermost stable circular orbit (ISCO)ray-tracing codeSgA*singular spacetime

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Black holes (83C57) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75) Galactic and stellar structure (85A15)

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