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The recent detection of gravitational waves from black hole coalescences and the first image of the black hole shadow enhance the possibilities of testing gravitational theories in the strong-field regime. In this paper, we study the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-27 Che-Yu Chen

We find that a \textit{slowly} rotating axion-modified black hole resulting from the backreaction of an axion field on a rotating Kerr black hole can have a \textit{D-shaped} shadow as that for a \textit{highly} counter-rotating Kerr black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-24 Xiao-Mei Kuang , Yuan Meng , Eleftherios Papantonopoulos , Xi-Jing Wang

Quite exotic relativistic objects known as wormholes are hypothetical candidates for central machine of active galactic nuclei as well as black holes. We find the magnitude of the perihelion precession and the deflection of light in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-09-24 V. Strokov , S. Repin

We present the shape of the black hole shadow on the standard background screen as it is registered by the distant observer. The screen is an infinite plane, emitting the quanta uniformly distributed to a hemisphere. The source of emission…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-14 Serge V. Repin , Dmitry A. Kompaneets , Igor D. Novikov , Valeriya A. Mityagina

We consider a simple model of a black hole surrounded by a toroidal structure and experiencing deformation due to magnetic field and the tidal force. For this system we construct the shadows of Preston-Poisson black hole, apply it to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-14 R. A. Konoplya , Jan Schee , Dmitriy Ovchinnikov

In this paper, we use a suitable conformal rescaling to construct static and rotating regular black holes in conformal massive gravity. The new metric is characterized by the mass $M$, the "scalar charge" $Q$, the angular momentum parameter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-18 Kimet Jusufi , Mubasher Jamil , Hrishikesh Chakrabarty , Qiang Wu , Cosimo Bambi , Anzhong Wang

Wormholes are one of the most interesting topological features in spacetime, offering a rat run between two vastly separated regions of the universe. In this paper, we study the deflection angle of light by wormholes, which are supported by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-04 Kimet Jusufi , Ali Övgün , Ayan Banerjee , İzzet Sakallı

We study the influence of the plasma environment on the shadows of stationary axisymmetric wormholes. We consider a sample of several wormhole solutions and plasma distributions for which the Hamilton-Jacobi equation for the light rays is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-16 Tsanimir Angelov , Rasim Bekir , Galin Gyulchev , Petya Nedkova , Stoytcho Yazadjiev

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

We have proposed a novel shape function on which the metric that models traversable wormholes is dependent. Using this shape function, the energy conditions, equation of state and anisotropy parameter are analyzed in $f(R)$ gravity,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-19 Gauranga C. Samanta , Nisha Godani , Kazuharu Bamba

Kerr black holes are among the most intriguing predictions of Einstein's general relativity theory. These rotating massive astrophysical objects drag and intermix their surrounding space and time, deflecting and phase-modifying light…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-18 Fabrizio Tamburini , Bo Thidé , Gabriel Molina-Terriza , Gabriele Anzolin

We describe and present the first observational evidence that light propagating near a rotating black hole is twisted in phase and carries orbital angular momentum. The novel use of this physical observable as an additional tool for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-02 Fabrizio Tamburini , Fabiano Feleppa , Bo Thidé

Due to the acceleration of the black hole, the circular orbits of the photons will deviate from the equatorial plane and the property of the black hole shadow will change. We find that the latitude of the circular orbit increases with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-20 Ming Zhang , Jie Jiang

In this work, we investigate the existence of wormholes within the framework of Loop Quantum Cosmology, using isotropic dark matter as the source. We analyze three distinct density profiles and solve the modified gravity field equations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-11 Marcos V. de S. Silva , G. Alencar , R. N. Costa Filho , R. M. P. Neves , Celio R. Muniz

A black hole casts a shadow as an optical appearance because of its strong gravitational field. We study the shadow cast by the five-dimensional Myers-Perry black hole with equal rotation parameters. We demonstrate that the null geodesic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 Uma Papnoi , Farruh Atamurotov , Sushant G. Ghosh , Bobomurat Ahmedov

First sketch of black hole from M87 galaxy was obtained by Event Horizon Telescope, recently. As appearance of black hole shadow reflects space-time geometry of black holes, observations of black hole shadow may be a promising way to test…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-30 Zhe Chang , Qing-Hua Zhu

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

We explore the possibility of traversable wormhole formation in the dark matter halos in the context of $f(Q)$ gravity. We obtain the exact wormhole solutions with anisotropic matter source based on the Bose-Einstein condensate,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-28 G. Mustafa , Zinnat Hassan , P. K. Sahoo

We present here a detailed derivation of an explicit spin-dependent expression for the bending angle of light as it traverses in the equatorial plane of a spinning black hole. We show that the deflection produced in the presence of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-30 Savitri V. Iyer , Edward C. Hansen

As an extension of our previous work, which investigated the shadows of the Ellis wormhole surrounded by nonrotating dust, in this paper we study wormhole shadows in rotating dust flow. First, we derive steady-state solutions of slowly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-25 Takayuki Ohgami , Nobuyuki Sakai