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In this article, we conduct a sequential study of possible observable images of black hole simulators described by two recently obtained rotating geometries in Einstein gravity, minimally coupled to a scalar field. One of them, "Kerr-like"…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-31 Igor Bogush , Dmitri Gal'tsov , Galin Gyulchev , Kirill Kobialko , Petya Nedkova , Tsvetan Vetsov

We consider non-commutating Simpson-Visser spacetime and study the superradiance phenomena and the shadow cast by the back hole associated with this modified spacetime. We extensively study the different aspects of the black hole associated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-30 Sohan Kumar Jha , Anisur Rahaman

We study the shadow produced by a spinning Kaluza-Klein black hole in Einstein gravity coupled to a Maxwell field and a dilaton. The size and the shape of the shadow depend on the mass, the charge, and the angular momentum. We find that,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-03-01 Leonardo Amarilla , Ernesto F. Eiroa

Aims. In order to understand the anisotropic properties of local radiation field in the curved spacetime around a rotating black hole, we investigate the appearance of a black hole seen by an observer located near the black hole. When the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Rohta Takahashi , Masaaki Takahashi

The black hole shadow, first observed by the Event Horizon Telescope in 2017, is the newest method for studying black holes and understanding gravity. Much work has gone into understanding the shadow of a Kerr black hole, including all of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-25 Dimitry Ayzenberg

We explore the structure of shadow for a Kerr-de Sitter black hole with a non-magnetized, pressureless plasma surrounding it. Specific plasma distributions are considered to separate the Hamilton-Jacobi equation and find the photon regions.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-16 Abhishek Chowdhuri , Arpan Bhattacharyya

The first image of black hole in M87 galaxy taken by Event Horizon Telescope shows that directed observation of supermassive black holes would be a promising way to test general relativity in strong gravity field regime. In order to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-17 Zhe Chang , Qing-Hua Zhu

The $\gamma$-metric is a static, axially-symmetric singular solution of the vacuum Einstein's equations without an event horizon. This is a two-parameter family of solutions, generic values of one of which (called $\gamma$) measure the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-24 Rajibul Shaikh , Suvankar Paul , Pritam Banerjee , Tapobrata Sarkar

We study the shadow of a charged rotating black hole in $f(R)$ gravity. This black hole is characterized by mass, $M$, spin, $a$, electric charge, $Q$ and $R_{0}$ which is proportional to cosmological constant. We analyze the image of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-06 Sara Dastan , Reza Saffari , Saheb Soroushfar

This paper investigates photon motion in black hole of Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton theory, exploring black hole shadows and observational characteristics under various accretion models. We first give the relation of the event horizon, photon…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-16 Junlin Qin , Hong-Er Gong , Yusen Wang , Zhan-Feng Mai , Bofeng Wu , Sen Guo , Enwei Liang

Recent observations of the supermassive black holes M87* and Sgr A* by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) have opened new avenues for testing gravity theories through black hole shadow observables. These observations offer a means to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-05 Mohsen Fathi , Yassine Sekhmani

We explore the universal symmetries of the black hole photon ring in a wide range of non-Kerr spacetimes, including the Kerr-Newman, Kerr-Sen, Kerr-Bardeen, and Kerr-Hayward metrics. The demagnification exponent ($\gamma$) controls the size…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-27 Rahul Kumar Walia , Prashant Kocherlakota , Dominic O. Chang , Kiana Salehi

We study the shadow of rotating charge black holes in the presence of quintessence. The shadow of a rotating black hole is a distorted circle and in our study, we find that the shape and size of the black hole shadow depend upon four…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-05 Balendra Pratap Singh

The presence of dark matter around a black hole remarkably affects its spacetime. We consider the effects of dark matter on the shadow of a new solution to the Einstein equations that describes a rotating black hole in the background of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-12 Sumarna Haroon , Mubasher Jamil , Kimet Jusufi , Kai Lin , Robert B. Mann

The Kerr-Newman solution with negative mass is shown to develop a massless ring singularity off the symmetry axis. The singularity is located inside the region with closed timelike curves which has topology of a torus and lies outside the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-06 V. S. Manko , E. Ruiz

Capturing the image of the shadow cast by the event horizon of an illuminated black hole is, at the most basic level, an experiment of extreme light deflection in a strongly curved spacetime. As such, the properties of an imaged shadow can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-14 Kostas Glampedakis , George Pappas

We investigate the shadow of an exact black hole solution of Einstein's equations recently proposed by Cardoso et al., to describe a supermassive black hole immersed in a dark matter halo. We analyze and discuss the light rings and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-03 Sérgio V. M. C. B. Xavier , Haroldo C. D. Lima Junior , Luís C. B. Crispino

Investigations of shadows of astrophysical entities constitute a major source of insight into the evolution of compact objects. Such effects depend on the nature of the compact object and arise on account of the strong gravitational lensing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-21 Muhammed Amir , Kimet Jusufi , Ayan Banerjee , Sudan Hansraj

Black hole shadows and photon spheres offer valuable tools for investigating black hole properties. Recent observations by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration have confirmed the existence of rotating black holes. Black hole parameters…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-26 Vitalii Vertogradov , Ali Övgün , Reggie C. Pantig

In this thesis we study aspects of strong-field gravitational lensing by black holes in general relativity, with a particular focus on the role of integrability and chaos in geodesic motion. We first investigate binary black hole shadows…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-12 Jake O. Shipley