A twist in the geometry of rotating black holes: seeking the cause of acausality

DOI10.1007/S10714-007-0577-1zbMATH Open1152.83331arXiv0708.2324OpenAlexW2169431812MaRDI QIDQ960067FDOQ960067

Authors: Christian Wüthrich, Hajnal Andréka, István Németi 

Publication date: 16 December 2008

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate Kerr-Newman black holes in which a rotating charged ring-shaped singularity induces a region which contains closed timelike curves (CTCs). Contrary to popular belief, it turns out that the time orientation of the CTC is opposite to the direction in which the singularity or the ergosphere rotates. In this sense, CTCs "counter-rotate" against the rotating black hole. We have similar results for all spacetimes sufficiently familiar to us in which rotation induces CTCs. This motivates our conjecture that perhaps this counter-rotation is not an accidental oddity particular to Kerr-Newman spacetimes, but instead there may be a general and intuitively comprehensible reason for this.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0708.2324

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zbMATH Keywords

closed timelike curvestime travelrotating black holesKerr-Newman spacetime

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Black holes (83C57)

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