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It is believed that curvature singularities are a creation of general relativity and hence, in the absence of a quantum gravity, models of nonsingular black holes have received significant attention. We study the shadow (apparent shape), an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-03 Muhammed Amir , Sushant G. Ghosh

In general relativity, all black holes in vacuum are described by the Kerr metric, which has only two independent parameters: the mass and the spin. The unique dependence on these two parameters is known as the no-hair theorem. This theorem…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-15 Tim Johannsen

Embedded diagrams are drawn for investigating the black hole of Kerr and non-Kerr metric. Kerr black holes are characterized by masses $M$ and spin parameters $a$. Non-Kerr black holes also are characterized by the deformation parameters…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-26 Yong-Jin Han , Hyun-Chul Lee

The last years have brought upon us a golden age of observational gravitational physics. The several observations by the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA collaboration about gravitational waves and by the EHT collaboration about the shadow and lensing of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-07 Jorge F. M. Delgado

Recently the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, with very-long baseline interferometric observations, resolved structure at the scale of $\sim5$ Schwarzschild radii about the center of M87$^*$, the supermassive black hole resident at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-24 Zack Carson , Kent Yagi

The Hairy Kerr black hole is a novel black hole solution that depicts a rotating space-time encompassed by an axisymmetric fluid. It has significant observational importance and is an excellent candidate for an astrophysical black hole. Our…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-22 Cheng Liu , Hoongwah Siew , Tao Zhu , Qiang Wu , Yuanyuan Zhao , Haiguang Xu

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is taking the first images of black holes resolved at horizon scales to measure their shadows and probe accretion physics. A promising avenue for testing the hypothesis that astrophysical black holes are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-17 Lia Medeiros , Dimitrios Psaltis , Feryal Özel

The Event Horizon Telescope collaboration has revealed the first direct image of a black hole, as per the shadow of a Kerr black hole of general relativity. However, other Kerr-like rotating black holes of modified gravity theories cannot…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-21 Misba Afrin , Sushant G. Ghosh

We study the imaging of a hairy black hole (HBH) in the Einstein-Klein-Gordon theory, where Einstein gravity is minimally coupled to a scalar potential $V(\phi)=-\Lambda \phi^4 + \mu \phi^2$ with $\Lambda$ and $\mu$ are constants. As a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-30 Kok-Geng Lim , Xiao Yan Chew

General relativity makes clear predictions about the spacetime geometry around black holes. In the near future, new facilities will have the capability to explore the metric around SgrA$^*$, the supermassive black hole candidate at the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-05-16 Zilong Li , Lingyao Kong , Cosimo Bambi

In General Relativity, the spacetimes of black holes have three fundamental properties: (i) they are the same, to lowest order in spin, as the metrics of stellar objects; (ii) they are independent of mass, when expressed in geometric units;…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-26 Dimitrios Psaltis , Colm Talbot , Ethan Payne , Ilya Mandel

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 revisit the classic system of a spherically symmetric black hole in general relativity (i.e., a Schwarzschild black hole) surrounded by a geometrically thin accretion disk. Our purpose is to examine whether one can determine three…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-08 Kenta Hioki , Umpei Miyamoto

The "no-hair" theorem states that astrophysical black holes are fully characterised by just two numbers: their mass and spin. The gravitational-wave emission from a perturbed black-hole consists of a superposition of damped sinusoids, known…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-03 Juan Calderón Bustillo , Paul D. Lasky , Eric Thrane

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 No Hair theorem in classical general relativity predicts that rotating black holes are specified by the Kerr metric, which is uniquely identified by the mass and spin. However, as a pioneering study beyond general relativity, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-26 Zhen Li

We present a family of solutions of Einstein's gravity minimally coupled to a complex, massive scalar field, describing asymptotically flat, spinning black holes with scalar hair and a regular horizon. These hairy black holes (HBHs) are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-06-11 Carlos A. R. Herdeiro , Eugen Radu

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 study, we have considered the Kerr-like black hole (BH) model in Horndeski gravity and analyse the visual characteristics of shadow images under two illumination models, such as a celestial light source and a thin accretion disk. To…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-09 Xiao-Xiong Zeng , Chen-Yu Yang , M. Israr Aslam , Rabia Saleem

According to the no-hair theorem, an astrophysical black hole is uniquely described by only two quantities, the mass and the spin. In this series of papers, we investigate a framework for testing the no-hair theorem with observations of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Tim Johannsen , Dimitrios Psaltis