New class of rotating charged black holes with nonaligned electromagnetic field

TL;DR

This paper introduces a new family of exact solutions to Einstein-Maxwell equations describing rotating, charged black holes with nonaligned electromagnetic fields, including novel limits like Kerr-Bertotti-Robinson black holes, expanding understanding of such spacetimes.

Contribution

The paper systematically derives a new class of twisting, accelerating charged black hole solutions with nonaligned electromagnetic fields, including their metric forms and physical interpretations.

Findings

Dependence on 7 parameters including Kerr, NUT, and electromagnetic duality rotations.

Limits recover known Kerr-Newman-NUT and introduce Kerr-Bertotti-Robinson black holes.

Solutions describe twisting, accelerating black holes immersed in external magnetic or electric fields.

Abstract

We present a large family of twisting and expanding solutions to the Einstein-Maxwell equations of algebraic type D, for which the two double principal null directions (PNDs) of the Weyl tensor are not aligned with the null eigendirections of the Faraday tensor. In addition to systematically deriving this new class, we present its various metric forms and convenient parameterizations. We show that in Boyer-Lindquist-type coordinates these solutions depend on 7 parameters, namely the Kerr and NUT (Newman-Unti-Tamburino) twist parameters $a$ and $l$, mass parameter $m$, acceleration $\alpha$, strength of the Maxwell field $|c|$, and angular parameters $\beta, \gamma$ that represent two duality rotations of the Faraday tensor, which include the rotation between the electric and magnetic charges generating the aligned part of the Maxwell field. This coordinate parameterization, analogous to the Griffiths-Podolsk\'y form of the Pleba\'nski-Demia\'nski solutions, allows us to perform various limits, explicitly identify the subcases, and determine the physical interpretation of the new class. Interestingly, by considering the limit with no acceleration ($\alpha\to 0$), one obtains either the famous Kerr-Newman-NUT black holes (if the parameter $|c|$ remains constant) or the novel Kerr-Bertotti-Robinson black holes, announced recently in our work [Kerr Black Hole in a Uniform Bertotti-Robinson Magnetic Field: An Exact Solution, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 135} (2025) 18, 181401] (if $|c|\rightarrow \infty$ while $\alpha |c|=\mathrm{const.}$). We may thus conclude that this new class of spacetimes represents twisting charged accelerating black holes, immersed in an external magnetic (or electric) field. In the non-twisting subcase, we obtain the previously known solution of Van den Bergh-Carminati.