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Black holes are among the most intriguing objects in nature. They are believed to be fully described by General Relativity (GR), and the astrophysical black holes are expected to belong to the Kerr family, obeying the no-hair theorems.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-12 Renan B. Magalhães , Luiz C. S. Leite , Luís C. B. Crispino

The present work explores the role of the dilaton charge $r_2$ and the plasma environment in explaining the observed images of M87* and Sgr A*. Dilaton charges are associated with Kerr-Sen black holes, the stationary, axi-symmetric black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-09 Siddharth Kumar Sahoo , Indrani Banerjee

The ringdown phase of a binary black hole merger is modelled by the quasi-normal modes of a perturbed Kerr black hole. According to the black hole no-hair theorem, the emitted ringdown spectra are constrained by the mass and spin of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-12 Zaryab Ahmed , Shilpa Kastha , Alex B. Nielsen

Black hole solutions in general relativity come with pathologies such as singularity and mass inflation instability, which are believed to be cured by a yet-to-be-found quantum theory of gravity. Without such consistent description, one may…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-14 Rajes Ghosh , Mostafizur Rahman , Akash K Mishra

By considering the celestial light source and the thin disk source, we employ the backward ray-tracing method to carefully study the shadow, inner shadow and observational images of the non-singular rotating black holes in loop quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-30 Guo-Ping Li , He-Bin Zheng , Ke-Jian He , Qing-Quan Jiang

We discuss the consequences of violating the no-hair theorem on magnetic fields surrounding a black hole. This is achieved by parametrically deforming the Kerr spacetime and studying the effects of such deformations on asymptotically…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-10 Pierre Christian

Theoretical investigations have provided proof-of-principle calculations suggesting measurements of stellar or pulsar orbits near the Galactic Center could strongly constrain the properties of the Galactic Center black hole, local matter,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-22 Hong Qi , Richard O'Shaughnessy , Patrick Brady

We investigate the gravitational lensing by spinning Proca stars and the shadows and lensing by Kerr black holes (BHs) with synchronised Proca hair, discussing both theoretical aspects and observational constraints from the Event Horizon…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-08 Ivo Sengo , Pedro V. P. Cunha , Carlos A. R. Herdeiro , Eugen Radu

Astrophysical black holes are expected to be described by the Kerr metric. This is the only stationary, vacuum, axisymmetric metric, without electromagnetic charge, that satisfies Einstein's equations and does not have pathologies outside…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-17 The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

We investigate the orbital structure and observable appearance of rotating Kerr black holes endowed with synchronized scalar hair described by two time-periodic scalar fields with a flat target-space geometry. The presence of scalar hair…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-11 Galin N. Gyulchev , Daniela D. Doneva , Valentin O. Deliyski , Petya G. Nedkova , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

The Kerr-Sen black hole is a rotating charged black hole solution arising from heterotic string theory. In 4-dimensions effective theory the bosonic fields are: a $U(1)$ gauge boson, a Kalb-Ramond 3-form which is equivalent to a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-02 Ashish Narang , Subhendra Mohanty , Abhass Kumar

The Galactic Center black hole environment gives us new opportunity to test deviation from General Relativity and black hole physics. In this work we analytically generate the shape of the Galactic Center black hole by using a recently…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-27 Pranjali Bhattacharjee , Sanjeev Kalita , Debojit Paul

General relativity has been tested by many experiments, which, however, almost exclusively probe weak spacetime curvatures. In this thesis, I create two frameworks for testing general relativity in the strong-field regime with observations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Tim Johannsen

High-frequency very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations can now resolve the horizon-scale emission from sources in the immediate vicinity of nearby supermassive black holes. Future space-VLBI observations will access highly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-07 Frederic H. Vincent , Samuel E. Gralla , Alexandru Lupsasca , Maciek Wielgus

We study, for the first time, the shadow of the supermassive black hole Sgr A$^{*}$ at the center of the Milky Way in dark matter halos. For the Cold Dark Matter and Scalar Field Dark Matter models considered in this work, the apparent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-25 Xian Hou , Zhaoyi Xu , Ming Zhou , Jiancheng Wang

In this work we construct a static and spherically symmetric black hole geometry supported by a family of generic mono-parametric sources thorough the Gravitational Decoupling. The parameter characterizing the matter sector can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-08 R. Avalos , P. Bargueño , E. Contreras

The gravitational field around an astrophysical black hole (BH) is thought to be described by the Kerr spacetime, which is a solution of the Einstein equation. Signatures of binary black hole (BBH) coalescence in gravitational waves (GW)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-03 Debtroy Das , Swarnim Shashank , Cosimo Bambi

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

Motivated by the first image of a black hole captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), there has been a surge of research using observations of black hole shadows to test theories of gravity. In this paper, we carry out a study related…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-06 Qi Sun , Yu Zhang , Chen-Hao Xie , Qi-Quan Li

The Johannsen black hole (BH) is a generic rotating BH admitting three constants of motions (energy, angular momentum, and Carter constant) and is characterized by four deviation parameters besides mass and spin, which could be a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-30 Kun Meng , Xi-Long Fan , Song Li , Wen-Biao Han , Hongsheng Zhang