Off-Equatorial Orbits around Magnetically Charged Black Holes

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Auteurs principaux: Li, Xilai, Del Grosso, Loris, Kaplan, David E.
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author Li, Xilai
Del Grosso, Loris
Kaplan, David E.
author_facet Li, Xilai
Del Grosso, Loris
Kaplan, David E.
contents We present a complete characterization of stable, off-equatorial circular orbits around magnetically charged black holes (MBHs). For a static, spherically symmetric MBH, we derive an exact analytic expression for the orbital latitude theta as a function of radius r and we analyze the effect of synchrotron radiation. We show that charged particles such as electrons and protons can exhibit O(1) latitude deviations at the ISCO radius and remain stable under synchrotron emission even for extremely small values of the black hole magnetic charge. We then extend the analysis to rotating MBHs, numerically computing the prograde and retrograde orbital branches and demonstrating how frame-dragging modifies their structure and stability regions. We show that these off-equatorial orbits are a unique feature of the magnetic charge, being forbidden in the analogous electrically charged Kerr-Newman spacetime. Our results suggest that environments surrounding magnetically charged black holes can exhibit distinctive phenomenological signatures, potentially offering a way to constrain the magnetic charge of astrophysical black holes.
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spellingShingle Off-Equatorial Orbits around Magnetically Charged Black Holes
Li, Xilai
Del Grosso, Loris
Kaplan, David E.
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
We present a complete characterization of stable, off-equatorial circular orbits around magnetically charged black holes (MBHs). For a static, spherically symmetric MBH, we derive an exact analytic expression for the orbital latitude theta as a function of radius r and we analyze the effect of synchrotron radiation. We show that charged particles such as electrons and protons can exhibit O(1) latitude deviations at the ISCO radius and remain stable under synchrotron emission even for extremely small values of the black hole magnetic charge. We then extend the analysis to rotating MBHs, numerically computing the prograde and retrograde orbital branches and demonstrating how frame-dragging modifies their structure and stability regions. We show that these off-equatorial orbits are a unique feature of the magnetic charge, being forbidden in the analogous electrically charged Kerr-Newman spacetime. Our results suggest that environments surrounding magnetically charged black holes can exhibit distinctive phenomenological signatures, potentially offering a way to constrain the magnetic charge of astrophysical black holes.
title Off-Equatorial Orbits around Magnetically Charged Black Holes
topic General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18821