Many accelerating distorted black holes

Understand

An analytical metric of four-dimensional General Relativity, representing an array of collinear and accelerating black holes, is constructed with the inverse scattering method.

• The solution can be completely regularised from any conical singularity, thanks to the presence of an external gravitational field.
• Therefore the multi-black hole configuration can be maintained at equilibrium without the need of string or struts.
• Some notable subcases such as the accelerating distorted Schwarzschild black hole and the double distorted C-metric are explicitly presented.