RT Journal Article T1 Causal structure of accelerating black holes A1 Ruiz Cembranos, José Alberto A1 Garay Elizondo, Luis Javier A1 Ángel Ortega, Sergio AB Accelerating black holes are described by the so-called C-metric. In this work, we analyse the causal structure of such black holes by using null geodesics. We construct explicitly the relevant Penrose diagrams. First, we recover well-known results associated with the sub-accelerating black holes. Then, we extend the study to the super-accelerating case, in which an additional essential singularity appears. In addition, we consider accelerating black holes with negative masses. We show that they are equivalent to the geometry described by the black hole metric beyond conformal infinity. We compare our results with the Schwarzschild geometry to facilitate understanding and to highlight the interest of the new features. PB Springer SN 1434-6044 YR 2022 FD 2022 LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/72058 UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/72058 LA eng NO © The Author(s) 2022.This work was partially supported by the MICINN (Spain) projects PID2019-107394GB-I00 and PID2020-118159GB-C44. S.A.O. thanks IPARCOS-UCM and the CAM/FEDER Project No.S2018/TCS-4342 (QUITEMAD-CM) for funding support. NO Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN)/AEI NO Comunidad de Madrid DS Docta Complutense RD 28 abr 2024