Accelerating and rotating black holes

Article

Accelerating and rotating black holes

Griffiths, J. B; Podolský, J.

Class. Quantum Grav. 22(0), 3467-3479 (2005)

Abstract

An exact solution of Einstein's equations which represents a pair of accelerating and rotating black holes (a generalised form of the spinning C-metric) is presented. The starting point is a form of the Plebanski-Demianski metric which, in addition to the usual parameters, explicitly includes parameters which describe the acceleration and angular velocity of the sources. This is transformed to a form which explicitly contains the known special cases for either rotating or accelerating black holes. Electromagnetic charges and a NUT parameter are included, the relation between the NUT parameter $l$ and the Plebanski-Demianski parameter $n$ is given, and the physical meaning of all parameters is clarified. The possibility of finding an accelerating NUT solution is also discussed.

Institute authors

Podolský, Jiří

BibTeX

@article{UTF182,
  author        = {Griffiths, J. B and Podolský, J.},
  title         = {{Accelerating and rotating black holes}},
  journal       = {Class. Quantum Grav.},
  volume        = {22},
  number        = {0},
  pages         = {3467-3479},
  year          = {2005},
  doi           = {10.1088/0264-9381/22/17/008},
  eprint        = {gr-qc/0507021},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url           = {http://www.iop.org/EJ/article/0264-9381/22/17/008/cqg5\_17\_008.pdf},
}