Dark energy remains among the greatest puzzles in our understanding of the cosmos. In the standard model of cosmology called the Lambda-CDM, it is accounted for by adding a cosmological constant term in Einstein’s field equation first introduced by Einstein himself. This constant is very small and positive and lacks a complete theoretical understanding of why it has such a tiny value. Moreover, dark energy has some peculiar features, such as negative pressure and does not dilute with cosmic expansion, which makes at least some of us uncomfortable.
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Many celestial bodies in the Universe are rotating, It is thus of great astrophysical interest to find exact metrics describing rotating, axially symmetric, isolated bodies. In the literature, many methods have been developed (see for example [Read more | >