Charged Rotating Black Holes in Higher Dimensions

Masoud Allahverdizadeh, Jutta Kunz, and Francisco Navarro-Lerida

Higher-dimensional black holes have become of high interest because of various developments in gravity and high energy physics. Some charged static (Tangherlini) and uncharged rotating (Myers-Perry) black holes in higher dimensions were found long time ago. However, when both electric charge and rotation are present, the task to find black holes in dimensions greater than 4 becomes a difficult one. In this talk we will analyze how these objects may be studied by using numerical and perturbative methods, when the existence of spacetime symmetries makes the problem tractable. By coupling different types of matter content the properties of these black holes reveal new and appealing features, most of them absent in D=4. Phenomena like non-uniqueness, counter-rotation, or non-constant gyromagnetic factor, exhibited by these black holes, are some of these new features that are not shared with the standard 4D Kerr-Newman solution.

Some of our references the talk will be based on are listed below:
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