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Orbital, Shadow, and Thin-Disk Signatures of a Regular Black Hole with Gravitational Self-Energy

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2026-06-29 v1

Abstract

We investigate geodesic motion, shadow observables and thin-disk accretion for the regular black hole generated by a non-local gravitational self-energy contribution. The geometry is controlled by a zero-point length and can be followed smoothly from the Schwarzschild limit to a cold extremal remnant. We compute the photon ring, critical impact parameter, apparent shadow radius, null Lyapunov exponent, innermost stable circular orbit, orbital frequencies and Novikov-Thorne flux profile. As the self-energy scale grows, both the photon ring and the ISCO move outward, while the photon-ring frequency and instability exponent decrease. The horizon-normalized shadow area increases by about a factor of 2.7 for the near-extremal benchmark, although the same shadow radius decreases when normalized by the ADM mass. The ISCO binding efficiency grows modestly, whereas the zero-torque thin-disk flux peak moves outward and falls to about 61% of the Schwarzschild peak as the solution approaches the remnant regime. These trends identify a coherent set of optical, orbital and accretion signatures of the gravitational-self-energy regularization.

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@article{arxiv.2606.30195,
  title  = {Orbital, Shadow, and Thin-Disk Signatures of a Regular Black Hole with Gravitational Self-Energy},
  author = {Erdinç Ulaş Saka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.30195},
  year   = {2026}
}

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9 pages, 5 figures, 5 tables