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Astrophysical phenomena involving massive black holes (BHs) in close binaries are expected to leave detectable signatures in the electromagnetic and gravitational-wave spectrum. Such imprints may provide precious information to probe the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-06 Andrea Maselli , Kostas Kokkotas , Pablo Laguna

We investigate the spherical photon orbits in near-extremal Kerr spacetimes. We show that the spherical photon orbits with impact parameters in a finite range converge on the event horizon. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the Weyl…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-04 Takahisa Igata , Hideki Ishihara , Yu Yasunishi

We investigate the shadow of a rotating braneworld black hole in dispersive plasma environments and assess the potential of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observations to constrain braneworld gravity. The spacetime around a rotating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-11 Siddharth Kumar Sahoo , Indrani Banerjee

We determine the metric of a Kerr black hole subject to external tidal fields using metric reconstruction techniques. Working within the Newman-Penrose formalism, we solve the Teukolsky master equation for static, quadrupolar modes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-04 Marta Cocco , Gianluca Grignani , Troels Harmark , Marta Orselli , David Pereñiguez , Maarten van de Meent

During the early phase of in-spiral of a binary system, the tidal heating of a compact object due to its companion plays a significant role in the determination of the orbital evolution of the binary. The phenomenon depends crucially on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-10 Sumanta Chakraborty , Sayak Datta , Subhadip Sau

Black hole solutions in the braneworld scenario are predicted to possess a tidal charge parameter, leaving imprints in the quasinormal spectrum. We conduct an extensive computation of such spectrum, and use it to construct a waveform model…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-18 Akash K Mishra , Gregorio Carullo , Sumanta Chakraborty

In this work, we investigate the critical behavior of photon rings in the Kerr-Bertotti-Robinson spacetime, describing a rotating black hole immersed in a background magnetic field. We analyze the radial and angular motions of photons under…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-27 Xi Wan , Zhenyu Zhang , Fang-Stars Wei , Yehui Hou , Bin Chen

Here we provide shadow images of a Kerr-like black hole (BH) in cold dark matter (CDM) halo illuminated with a celestial light source and a thin accretion disk. The impact of spin parameter, critical density and the scale radius on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-13 Xiao-Xiong Zeng , Chen-Yu Yang , M. Israr Aslam , Rabia Saleem , Sadia Aslam

A constraint on the tidal charge generated within a brane world is shown. Using the shadow of a rotating black hole in a brane context in order to describe the M87* parameters recently announced by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-11 Juliano C. S. Neves

The images of supermassive black holes surrounded by optically-thin, radiatively-inefficient accretion flows, like those observed with the Event Horizon Telescope, are characterized by a bright ring of emission surrounding the black-hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-01 Ziri Younsi , Dimitrios Psaltis , Feryal Özel

Rotating regular black hole, as a promising extension beyond general relativity, offer a phenomenological model that resolves spacetime singularities. In this study, we investigate the observational features of thin accretion disk around a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-30 Zhen Li

We study the effect of light-bending on the signal of a pulsar in binaries with rotating black hole companions, focusing on stellar mass black holes. We show that the impacts of various parameters on the bending delays visually match with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-09 Jyotijwal Debnath , Manjari Bagchi

Tidal coupling between members of a compact binary system can have an interesting and important influence on that binary's dynamical inspiral. Tidal coupling also distorts the binary's members, changing them (at lowest order) from spheres…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-02 Stephen O'Sullivan , Scott A. Hughes

In this paper, we investigate the shadow and optical appearance of the hairy Kerr black hole illuminated by a thin accretion disk, the materials of which outside the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) move on the equatorial circular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-07 Yuan Meng , Xi-Jing Wang , Yong-Zhuang Li , Xiao-Mei Kuang

The motion of photons around black holes determines the shape of shadow and match the ringdown properties of a perturbed black hole. Observations of shadows and ringdown waveforms will reveal the nature of black holes. In this paper, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-29 Song Li , Ahmadjon A. Abdujabbarov , Wen-Biao Han

A star orbiting a supermassive black hole can be tidally disrupted if the black hole's gravitational tidal field exceeds the star's self gravity at pericenter. Some of this stellar tidal debris can become gravitationally bound to the black…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-20 Michael Kesden

The cross sections of black holes with tidal charge predicted in the context of the Randall--Sundrum brane-world scenario are computed considering the massless scalar field. Results obtained for black holes with different tidal-charge…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-06 Ednilton S. de Oliveira

We study the non-monotonic Keplerian velocity profiles related to locally non-rotating frames (LNRF) in the field of near-extreme braneworld Kerr black holes and naked singularities in which the non-local gravitational effects of the bulk…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-08-02 Zdenek Stuchlik , Martin Blaschke , Petr Slany

This work introduces a novel formalism to investigate the role of the spin of astrophysical black holes in determining the behaviour of matter falling onto such accretors. Equations describing the general relativistic hydrodynamic accretion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-02-25 Paramita Barai , Ipsita Chakraborty , Tapas K Das , Paul J Wiita

Here we consider two phenomena in the vicinity of a black hole deformed by the tidal gravitational force of surrounding matter and by a strong magnetic field: equatorial motion of charged particles and the decay of a test scalar field. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-20 R. A. Konoplya , Yu-Chun Liu