Nonlinear electrodynamics and regular black holes

(2+1)-regular static black hole solutions with a nonlinear electric field are derived. The source to the Einstein equations is an energy momentum tensor of nonlinear electrodynamics, which satisfies the weak energy conditions and in the weak field limit becomes the (2+1)-Maxwell field tensor. The derived class of solutions is regular; the metric, curvature invariants and electric field are regular everywhere. The metric becomes, for a vanishing parameter, the (2+1)-static charged BTZ solution. A general procedure to derive solutions for the static BTZ (2+1)-spacetime, for any nonlinear Lagrangian depending on the electric field is formulated; for relevant electric fields one requires the fulfillment of the weak energy conditions.

We study solutions in non-linear electrodynamics (NED) and establish several general results. We show, that the SO(2) electric-magnetic duality symmetry is restrictive enough to allow for reconstruction of the NED Lagrangian from the spherically-symmetric electrostatic (Coulomb-like) solution — although there are infinitely many different NED theories admitting a given solution, there exists a unique SO(2) invariant one among them under a simple analyticity assumption (that leaves out some interesting physical theories). We introduce a general algorithm for constructing new SO(2) invariant NED theories in the conventional approach, where only a few examples are available. We also show how to derive the Lagrangian of the SO(2) invariant theory admitting a given electrostatic solution. We further show on a simple example that some NED theories may require sources (particles) of finite (non-zero) size. Such a non-zero size source not only regularizes the infinite energy of the point charge but also satisfies the condition of regularity, that the electric field is zero at the origin. The latter condition was identified earlier as necessary and sufficient for the NED solution to generate a regular black hole via so-called double copy construction and is also satisfied by solitons. We propose a large class of solitonic NED solutions that give rise to regular black holes via double copy construction and contain solutions of Maxwell and Born-Infeld as different limits. This class of NED solutions acquires two new properties in the limit where the corresponding regular black hole’s asymptotics becomes Minkowski: it gives rise to regular higher-spin black holes via generalization of double copy — “higher-copy” construction, and for very short distances changes the sign of the force becoming repulsive/attractive for opposite/similar signs of charges.

We classify all fundamental electrically charged thin shells in general relativity, i.e., static spherically symmetric perfect fluid thin shells with a Minkowski spacetime interior and a Reissner-Nordstr\"om spacetime exterior, characterized by the spacetime mass and electric charge. The fundamental shell can exist in three states, nonextremal, extremal, and overcharged. The nonextremal state allows the shell to be located such that its radius can be outside its own gravitational radius, or can be inside its own Cauchy radius. The extremal state allows the shell to be located such that its radius can be outside its own gravitational radius, or can be inside it. The overcharged state allows the shell to be located anywhere. There is a further division, one has to specify the orientation of the shell, i.e., whether the normal out of the shell points toward increasing or decreasing radii. There is still a subdivision in the extremal state when the shell is at the gravitational radius, in that the shell can approach it from above or from below. The shell is assumed to be composed of an electrically charged perfect fluid, and the energy conditions are tested. Carter-Penrose diagrams are drawn for the shell spacetimes. There are fourteen cases in the classification of the fundamental shells, namely, nonextremal star shells, nonextremal tension shell black holes, nonextremal tension shell regular and nonregular black holes, nonextremal compact shell naked singularities, Majumdar-Papapetrou star shells, extremal tension shell singularities, extremal tension shell regular and nonregular black holes, Majumdar-Papapetrou compact shell naked singularities, Majumdar-Papapetrou shell quasiblack holes, extremal null shell quasinonblack holes, extremal null shell singularities, Majumdar-Papapetrou null shell singularities, overcharged star shells, and overcharged compact shell naked singularities.

To have the correct picture of a black hole as a whole, it is of crucial importance to understand its interior. The singularities that lurk inside the horizon of the usual Kerr-Newman family of black hole solutions signal an endpoint to the physical laws and, as such, should be substituted in one way or another. A proposal that has been around for sometime is to replace the singular region of the spacetime by a region containing some form of matter or false vacuum configuration that can also cohabit with the black hole interior. Black holes without singularities are called regular black holes. In the present work, regular black hole solutions are found within general relativity coupled to Maxwell's electromagnetism and charged matter. We show that there are objects which correspond to regular charged black holes, whose interior region is de Sitter, whose exterior region is Reissner-Nordstr\"om, and the boundary between both regions is made of an electrically charged spherically symmetric coat. There are several types of solutions: regular nonextremal black holes with a null matter boundary, regular nonextremal black holes with a timelike matter boundary, regular extremal black holes with a timelike matter boundary, and regular overcharged stars with a timelike matter boundary. The main physical and geometrical properties of such charged regular solutions are analyzed.

We investigate gravitational lensing within the framework of general relativity, focusing particularly on the deflection angle calculations in the weak field limit around a regular charged black hole. The presence of an inherited-centered singularity highlights the complex nature of black holes following gravitational collapse. However, non-linear electrodynamics (NLED) proposes the intriguing concept of a non-singularity, introducing new perspectives to this discussion. Our methodology explicitly incorporates NLED's role in determining the effective geometry of photons, advancing beyond standard metric analyses. The exact solution identifies a new correction term in the deflection angle that is specifically comparable to that of Reissner-Nordstrom (R.N.) model. These distinctive terms in the lensing effects significantly alter the sequence of shifts in the third angular images of a regular charged black hole. This analysis deepens our understanding of the complex interactions between a regular charged black hole and gravitational lensing. Future astronomical observations will be integral to corroborating these theoretically posited models, providing observational validation and potentially elucidating our theoretical framework.

The theory of nonlinear electrodynamics has got a lot of attentions in recent years. It was shown that Born-Infeld nonlinear electrodynamics is not the only modification of the linear Maxwell's field which keeps the electric field of a charged point particle finite at the origin, and other type of nonlinear Lagrangian such as exponential and logarithmic nonlinear electrodynamics can play the same role. In this paper, we generalize the study on the exponential nonlinear electrodynamics by adding a scalar dilaton field to the action. By suitably choosing the coupling of the matter field to the dilaton field, we vary the action and obtain the corresponding field equations. Then, by making a proper ansatz, we construct a new class of charged dilaton black hole solutions coupled to the exponential nonlinear electrodynamics field in the presence of two Liouville-type potentials for the dilaton field. Due to the presence of the dilaton field, the asymptotic behavior of these solutions are neither flat nor (A)dS. In the limiting case where the nonlinear parameter $\beta^2$ goes to infinity, our solution reduces to the Einstein-Maxwell dilaton black holes. We obtain the mass, temperature, entropy and electric potential of these solutions. We also study the behaviour of the electric field as well as the electric potential of these black holes near the origin. We find that the electric field has a finite value \textit{near} the origin, which is the same as the electric field of Born-Infeld nonlinear electrodynamics, but it can diverge exactly at $r=0$ depending on the model parameters. We also investigate the effects of the dilaton field on the behaviour of the electric field and electric potential. Finally, we check the validity of the first law of black hole thermodynamics on the black hole horizon.

We derive new exact charged d-dimensional black hole solutions for quadratic teleparallel equivalent gravity, f(mathcal{T})=a_0+a_1mathcal{T}+a_2mathcal{T}^2, where mathcal T is the torsion scalar, in the case of non-linear electrodynamics. We give a specific form of electromagnetic function and find out the form of the unknown functions that characterize the vielbeins in presence of the electromagnetic field. It is possible to show that the black holes behave asymptotically as AdS solutions and contain, in addition to the monopole and quadrupole terms, other higher order terms whose source is the non-linear electrodynamics field. We calculate the electromagnetic Maxwell field and show that our d-dimensional black hole solutions coincide with the previous obtained one (Awad et al. in J High Energy Phys 13:1706.01773, 2017). The structure of the solutions show that there is a central singularity that is much mild in comparison with the respective one in general relativity. Finally, the thermodynamical properties of the solutions are investigated by calculating the entropy, the Hawking temperature, the heat capacity, and other physical quantities. The most important result of thermodynamics is that the entropy is not proportional to the area of the black hole. This inanition points out that we must have a constrain on the quadrupole term to get a positive entropy otherwise we get a negative value.

We obtain an exact solution of $AdS$ black hole solution in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) gravity coupled with nonlinear electrodynamics. It interpolates with the $AdS$ regular black hole and $AdS$ EGB black hole in the absence of the Gauss-Bonnet coupling constant and both magnetic monopole charge and deviation parameter, respectively. Based on horizon thermodynamics, we study the thermodynamic properties of the obtained solution (e.g. mass, temperature, entropy, heat capacity and free energy). The Hawking temperature of the nonsingular black hole gets the maximum value at the point where specific heat diverges and the second-order phase transition occurs at the same point. We find that the smaller nonsingular black holes are stable due to positive heat capacity and negative free energy. We explicitly trace the relations between the black hole shadow and the critical behavior of charged EGB $AdS$ regular black hole in the extended phase space.

In this work, we discuss the accretion onto static spherical symmetric regular black holes for specific choices of equation of state parameter. The underlying regular black holes are charged regular black hole using Fermi-Dirac Distribution, logistic distribution, nonlinear electrodynamics, respectively and Kehagias-Sftesos asymptotically flat regular black hole. We obtain the critical radius, critical speed and squared sound speed during the accretion process near the regular black holes. We also study the behavior of radial velocity, energy density and rate of change of mass for each regular black holes.

The electric counterpart of the magnetic black hole solution found in nonlinear electrodynamics (NED) is presented. The electric field emerges regular and confined whereas the spacetime which satisfies all the energy conditions is singular. Our result is in conformation with a theorem proved before about the existence of regular electric black holes. The thermal properties of the black hole including the first law, Smarr's formula, and the thermal stability are investigated. This provides a chance to compare the electric and magnetic types of black holes in a particular model of NED.

The \\textit{axial} electromagnetic (EM) perturbations of the black hole (BH)\nsolutions in general relativity coupled to nonlinear electrodynamics (NED) were\nstudied for both electrically and magnetically charged BHs, assuming that the\nEM perturbations do not alter the spacetime geometry in our preceding paper\n[Phys. Rev. D 97, 084058 (2018)]. Here, as a continuation of that work, the\nformalism for the \\textit{polar} EM perturbations of the BHs in general\nrelativity coupled to the NED is presented. We show that the quasinormal modes\n(QNMs) spectra of polar EM perturbations of the electrically and magnetically\ncharged BHs in the NED are not isospectral, contrary to the case of the\nstandard Reissner-Nordstr\\"{o}m BHs in the classical linear electrodynamics. It\nis shown by the detailed study of QNMs properties in the eikonal approximation\nthat the EM perturbations can be a powerful tool to confirm that in the NED\nlight ray does not follow the null geodesics of the spacetime. By specifying\nthe NED model and comparing axial and polar EM perturbations of the\nelectrically and magnetically charged BHs, it is shown that QNM spectra of the\naxial EM perturbations of magnetically (electrically) charged BH and polar EM\nperturbations of the electrically (magnetically) charged BH are isospectral,\ni.e., $\\omega_{mag}^{ax}\\approx\\omega_{el}^{pol}$\n($\\omega_{mag}^{pol}\\approx\\omega_{el}^{ax}$).\n

As argued in [78], introducing a non-minimally coupled scalar field, three-dimensional Einstein gravity can be extended by infinite families of theories which admit simple analytic generalizations of the charged BTZ black hole. Depending on the gravitational couplings, the solutions may describe black holes with one or several horizons and with curvature or BTZ-like singularities. In other cases, the metric function behaves as f (r) $$ \overset{\left(r\to 0\right)}{\sim } $$ ∼ r → 0 $$ \mathcal{O}\left({r}^{2s}\right) $$ O r 2 s with s ≥ 1, and the black holes are completely regular — a feature unique to three dimensions. Regularity arises generically i.e., without requiring any fine-tuning of parameters. In this paper we show that all these theories satisfy Birkhoff theorems, so that the most general spherically-symmetric solutions are given by the corresponding static black holes. We perform a thorough characterization of the Penrose diagrams of the solutions, finding a rich structure which includes, in particular, cases which tessellate the plane and others in which the diagrams cannot be drawn in a single plane. We also study the motion of probe particles on the black holes, finding that observers falling to regular black holes reach the center after a finite proper time. Contrary to the singular cases, the particles are not torn apart by tidal forces, so they oscillate between antipodal points describing many-universe orbits. We argue that in those cases the region r = 0 can be interpreted as a horizon with vanishing surface gravity, giving rise to generic inner-extremal regular black hole solutions. We also analyze the deep interior region of the solutions identifying the presence of Kasner eons and the conditions under which they take place. Finally, we construct new black hole solutions in the case in which infinite towers of terms are included in the action.

We analyze the effects of thermal fluctuations on a regular black hole (RBH) of the non-minimal Einstein–Yang–Mill theory with gauge field of magnetic Wu–Yang type and a cosmological constant. We consider the logarithmic corrected entropy in order to analyze the thermal fluctuations corresponding to non-minimal RBH thermodynamics. In this scenario, we develop various important thermodynamical quantities, such as entropy, pressure, specific heats, Gibb’s free energy and Helmholtz free energy. We investigate the first law of thermodynamics in the presence of logarithmic corrected entropy and non-minimal RBH. We also discuss the stability of this RBH using various frameworks such as the gamma factor (the ratio of heat capacities), phase transition, grand canonical ensemble and canonical ensemble. It is observed that the non-minimal RBH becomes globally and locally more stable if we increase the value of the cosmological constant.

This work explores dyonic black bounce (BB) solutions within the framework of general relativity (GR), coupled with nonlinear electrodynamics (NLED) and scalar fields (SFs). Previous research has employed NLED and SFs to obtain BB solutions in GR; however, these solutions typically assume the presence of either magnetic monopoles or electric charges exclusively as components of the Maxwell–Faraday tensor. In this study, we examine static and spherically symmetric BB solutions that incorporate both magnetic and electric components, forming what are known as dyon solutions. A dyon is a particle characterized by the coexistence of both magnetic and electric charges. We determine the NLED Lagrangian density and the scalar field potential that produce these solutions and analyze the associated gravitational configurations, focusing on horizons, the behavior of the metric function, and spacetime regularity as described by the Kretschmann scalar. Notably, we present the first BB solution derived from the coupling of a linear electromagnetic Lagrangian and a scalar field with an associated potential as the matter source. This work broadens the class of non-singular geometries in the literature and opens new avenues for investigating dyonic BB solutions within the context of other modified gravity theories.

With the recent release of the black hole image of Sgr A* alongside the earlier image of M87*, one can now really hope to acquire a better understanding of the gravitational physics at the horizon scale. In this paper, we investigate the prospect of the regular black hole scenario with a Minkowski core in explaining the observed shadow of M87* and Sgr A*. Regular black holes generally appear in Einstein gravity coupled to non-linear electrodynamics and are interesting as they can evade the r = 0 curvature singularity arising in general relativity. Using the previously determined mass and distance we compute the observables associated with the black hole shadow. These when compared with the observed angular diameter reveals that the shadow of M87* and Sgr A* favor the regular black hole scenario with a small but non-zero charge. The implications are discussed.