Rahaman, Farook, Kuhfittig, P. K. F., Bhui, B. C., Rahaman, Mosiur, Ray, Saibal, and Mondal, U. F.
In this paper, a Banados-Teitelboim-Zanelli (BTZ) black hole [Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 1849 (1992)] is constructed from an exact solution of the Einstein field equations in a (2 + 1)--dimensional anti--de Sitter spacetime in the context of noncommutative geometry. The BTZ black hole turns out to have either two horizons, no horizon, or a single horizon corresponding to a minimal mass. Certain thermodynamical properties are investigated, including Hawking temperature, entropy, and heat capacity. Also discussed is the geodesic structure of BTZ black holes for both massless and massive particles. In particular, it is shown that bound orbits for test particles are possible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]