Gravitational and electromagnetic radiations from binary black holes with electric and magnetic charges
Lang Liu, Sang Pyo Kim
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Proceedings for the 17th Italian-Korean Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, Korea, August 2-6, 2021; 12 pages, 5 figures; Talk based on arXiv:2008.02326 and arXiv:2011.13586
The Einstein-Maxwell theory has black hole solutions with electric and magnetic charges. In the standard model for particle physics, dyons with electric and magnetic charges would have been formed in the early universe. We derive the equations of motion of black hole binaries with electric and magnetic charges and explore some features of static orbits. We calculate the total emission rates of energy and angular momentum due to gravitational and electromagnetic radiations from dyonic binary black holes in different cases. It is shown that the emission rates of energy and angular momentum due to gravitational and electromagnetic radiations have the same dependence on the conic angle for different orbits. Moreover, we obtain the evolutions of orbits and find that a circular orbit remains circular while an elliptic orbit becomes quasi-circular due to electromagnetic and gravitational radiations. Our results provide rich information about black hole binaries with electric and magnetic charges and can be used to test black holes with magnetic charges.
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