https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7188-3
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
A near horizon extreme binary black hole geometry
1
Department of Physics, Utah State University, 4415 Old Main Hill Road, Logan, UT, 84322, USA
2
Max Planck for Gravitational Physics-Albert Einstein Institute, Am Muhlenberg 1, 14476, Potsdam, Germany
* e-mail: maria.rodriguez@aei.mpg.de
** e-mail: maria.rodriguez@usu.edu
Received:
21
August
2018
Accepted:
1
August
2019
Published online:
11
September
2019
A new solution of four-dimensional vacuum General Relativity is presented. It describes the near horizon region of the extreme (maximally spinning) binary black hole system with two identical extreme Kerr black holes held in equilibrium by a massless strut. This is the first example of a non-supersymmetric, near horizon extreme binary black hole geometry of two uncharged black holes. The black holes are co-rotating, their relative distance is fixed, and the solution is uniquely specified by the mass. Asymptotically, the geometry corresponds to the near horizon extreme Kerr (NHEK) black hole. The binary extreme system has finite entropy.
© The Author(s), 2019
