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In certain extensions of General Relativity, wormholes generated by spherically symmetric electric fields can resolve black hole singularities without necessarily removing curvature divergences. This is shown by studying geodesic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-20 Gonzalo J. Olmo , D. Rubiera-Garcia , A. Sanchez-Puente

We clarify the relationship between rotation and the energy condition for stationary rotating wormhole solutions of the Einstein equations coupled to a phantom field in five-dimensional spacetime with equal angular momenta, particularly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-16 Keiya Uemichi , Yasutaka Koga , Daiki Saito , Chul-Moon Yoo , Daisuke Yoshida

Wormholes are intriguing classical solutions in General Relativity, that have fascinated theoretical physicists for decades. In recent years, especially in Holography, gravitationalWormhole geometries have found a new life in many…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-07 Arnab Kundu

We investigate the observable signatures -- the shadow, the throat silhouette, and the image of a thin accretion disk -- for a family of static, spherically symmetric wormholes with an arbitrary throat profile. First, we derive expressions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-20 Valeria A. Ishkaeva , Sergey V. Sushkov

Recently, two of us have found numerically rotating Ellis wormholes as solutions of 4-dimensional Einstein gravity coupled to a phantom field. In this paper, we investigate possible observational signatures to identify similar objects in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-19 Menglei Zhou , Alejandro Cardenas-Avendano , Cosimo Bambi , Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz

In this work, we have studied the traversable wormholes geometry in $f(R)$ theory gravity, where $R$ be the Ricci scalar. The wormhole solution for some assumed $f(R)$ functions have been presented. The assumption of $f(R)$ is based on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-24 B. Mishra , A. S. Agrawal , S. K. Tripathy. Saibal. Ray

We generalize our previous work on gravitational lensing by a Kerr black hole in the strong deflection limit, removing the restriction to observers on the equatorial plane. Starting from the Schwarzschild solution and adding corrections up…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 V. Bozza , F. De Luca , G. Scarpetta

In this work, we consider a static wormhole in Bopp-Podolsky electrodynamics and convert it into its rotating counterpart by reducing it into Morris-Thorne form. We further study the null geodesics and effective potential along with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-14 Muhammad Ali Raza , Francisco Tello-Ortiz , M. Zubair , Y. Gómez-Leyton

It has been shown that a noncommutative-geometry background may be able to support traversable wormholes. This paper discusses the possible detection of such wormholes in the outer regions of galactic halos by means of gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-16 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

In this work, we study the optical properties of a class of magnetically charged rotating black hole spacetimes. The black holes in question are assumed to be immersed in the quintessence field, and subsequently, the resulting black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-15 Chengxiang Sun , Yunqi Liu , Wei-Liang Qian , Ruihong Yue

Traversable wormholes (TWHs) remain one of the most intriguing predictions of General Relativity (GR), offering passage through space-time. However, their existence requires the violation of the null energy condition, making their detection…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-18 Subenoy Chakraborty , Madhukrishna Chakraborty

We succeed to find compact analytical expressions which allow to easily extract the black hole spin from observations of its shadow, without need to construct or model the entire curve of the shadow. The deformation of Kerr black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-07 O. Yu. Tsupko

Recently, an analytical solution in Einstein-aether theory was presented explicitly in isotropic coordinates. It is characterized by a mass parameter $m$ and a combined coupling constant $c_{14}$. By a coordinate transformation, we verify…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-01 Yanni Zhu , Towe Wang

Advancements in the black hole shadow observations may allow us not only to investigate physics in the strong gravity regime, but also to use them in cosmological studies. In this paper, we propose to use the shadow of supermassive black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-21 Oleg Yu. Tsupko , Zuhui Fan , Gennady S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan

In this paper, the shadow casted by the rotating black hole inspired by noncommutative geometry is investigated. In addition to the dimensionless spin parameter $a/M_{0}$ with $M_{0}$ black hole mass and inclination angle $i$, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-18 Shao-Wen Wei , Peng Cheng , Yi Zhong , Xiang-Nan Zhou

We analyze the shadow of charged stationary axially symmetric space-time (Kerr-Sen dilaton-axion black hole). This black hole is defined by a mass $M$, a spin $a$ and $r_{\alpha}=Q^{2}/M$, where $Q$ is the electric charge. Shadows are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-01 Sara Dastan , Reza Saffari , Saheb Soroushfar

In 6D general relativity with a phantom scalar field as a source of gravity, we present solutions that implement a transition from an effective 4D geometry times small extra dimensions to an effectively 6D space-time where the physical laws…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-19 K. A. Bronnikov , P. A. Korolyov , A. Makhmudov , M. V. Skvortsova

We examine the shadow cast by a Kerr black hole pierced by a cosmic string. The observable images depend not only on the black hole spin parameter and the angle of inclination, but also on the deficit angle yielded by the cosmic string. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-17 Vassil K. Tinchev , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

Observations of the black hole shadow of supermassive black holes, such as Sagittarius A* at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, allow us to study the properties of black holes and the nature of strong-field gravity. According to the Kerr…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-14 Dimitry Ayzenberg , Nicolas Yunes

We consider a black hole mimicker given by an exact solution of the stationary and axially symmetric field equations in vacuum known as the $\delta$-Kerr metric. We study its optical properties based on a ray-tracing code for photon motion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-25 Song Li , Temurbek Mirzaev , Ahmadjon A. Abdujabbarov , Daniele Malafarina , Bobomurat Ahmedov , Wen-Biao Han