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In this paper, we discuss how the shadow of a Kerr black hole depends on the motion of the observer. In particular, we derive an analytical formula for the boundary curve of the shadow for an observer moving with given four-velocity at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-07 Arne Grenzebach

X-ray reflection spectroscopy is a powerful technique for probing the nature of gravity around black holes in the so-called strong field regime. One of the most popular of such probes is to look at theory-agnostic deviations away from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-27 Askar B. Abdikamalov , Dimitry Ayzenberg , Cosimo Bambi , Sourabh Nampalliwar , Ashutosh Tripathi

Black holes described by the Kerr metric can have a theoretical maximum dimensionless spin parameter of $a_\bullet = 1$, but several effects may limit the maximum spin parameter in astrophysical systems. We perform general relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-23 Tegan A. Thomas , Angelo Ricarte , Cora Prather , Hyerin Cho

Light bending by the strong gravity around the black hole will form the so-called black hole shadow, the shape of which can shed light on the structure of the near-horizon geometry to possibly reveal novel physics of strong gravity and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-28 Feng-Li Lin , Avani Patel , Hung-Yi Pu

The black hole uniqueness and the no-hair theorems imply that the quasinormal spectrum of any astrophysical black hole is determined solely by its mass and spin. The countably infinite number of quasinormal modes of a Kerr black hole are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-31 Xisco Jiménez Forteza , Swetha Bhagwat , Paolo Pani , Valeria Ferrari

We present explicit black holes endowed with primary scalar hair within the shift-symmetric subclass of Beyond Horndeski theories. These solutions depend, in addition to the conventional mass parameter, on a second free parameter encoding…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-02 Athanasios Bakopoulos , Christos Charmousis , Panagiota Kanti , Nicolas Lecoeur , Theodoros Nakas

We consider the quasinormal modes, quasibound states and superradiant instability of a rotating hairy black hole, which possesses a Horndeski hair as deviation from Kerr black hole, under the perturbation of massive scalar field. With the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-03 Yun-He Lei , Zhen-Hao Yang , Xiao-Mei Kuang

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observation unveiled the first image of supermassive black hole Sgr A* showing a shadow of diameter $\theta_{sh}= 48.7 \pm 7\,\mu$as with fractional deviation from the Schwarzschild black hole shadow…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-10 Rahul Kumar Walia , Sushant G Ghosh , Sunil D Maharaj

We study the gravitational lensing effects of a static, asymptotically flat black hole with primary scalar hair in Beyond Horndeski gravity, focusing on the strong lensing regime. Recently, in Ref. [1], we placed constraints on the scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-09 Mohsen Fathi

Seeking singularity free solutions are important for further understanding black holes in quantum level. Recently, a five-dimensional singularity free black hole/topological star was constructed [Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 151101 (2021)].…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-23 Wen-Di Guo , Shao-Wen Wei , Yu-Xiao Liu

Motivated by recent work on rotating black hole shadow [Phys. Rev. D101, 084029 (2020)], we investigate the shadow behaviors of rotating Hayward-de Sitter black hole for static observers at a finite distance in terms of astronomical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-29 Peng-Zhang He , Qi-Qi Fan , Hao-Ran Zhang , Jian-Bo Deng

Since the full General Theory of Relativity has been unveiled to the scientific community in 1915, many solutions to the vacuum Einstein field equations have been found and studied. This paper aims at documenting exhaustively the derivation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-18 Onur Uçanok

The study of black hole (BH) shadows provide crucial insights into the nature of strong gravitational effects and the intricate structure of the spacetime surrounding BHs. In this paper, we explore the shadow of Kerr MOG BH within a plasma…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-30 Saira Yasmin , Khadije Jafarzade , Mubasher Jamil

Astrophysical black holes are thought to be the Kerr black holes predicted by general relativity, but macroscopic deviations from the Kerr solution can be expected from a number of scenarios involving new physics. In Paper I, we studied the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-06 Zhibo Yu , Qunfeng Jiang , Askar B. Abdikamalov , Dimitry Ayzenberg , Cosimo Bambi , Honghui Liu , Sourabh Nampalliwar , Ashutosh Tripathi

A hairy Schwarzschild black hole describes the deformation of Schwarzschild black hole due to including additional sources. It is found that depending on the hairy parameters, the photons' configurations around this black hole can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-26 Yuan Meng , Xiao-Mei Kuang , Xi-Jing Wang , Bin Wang , Jian-Pin Wu

If a black hole has hair, how short can this hair be? A partial answer to this intriguing question was recently provided by the 'no-short hair' theorem which asserts that the external fields of a spherically-symmetric electrically neutral…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-31 Shahar Hod

Black holes with dyonic charges in Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton-axion supergravity theory are revisited in the context of black hole shadows. We consider static as well as rotating (namely the dyonic Kerr-Sen) black holes. The matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-08 Soumya Jana , Sayan Kar

In this paper, we investigate the optical appearance of a regular static spherically symmetric hairy black hole within the context of Minkowski deformation governed by the parameter \(\alpha\). This black hole describes a hairy black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-23 Xilong Yang , Meirong Tang , Zhaoyi Xu

The half opening angle of a Kerr black-hole shadow is always equal to (5+-0.2)GM/Dc^2, where M is the mass of the black hole and D is its distance from the Earth. Therefore, measuring the size of a shadow and verifying whether it is within…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-02 Dimitrios Psaltis , Feryal Ozel , Chi-Kwan Chan , Daniel P. Marrone

Various generalizations of the scalar, axisymmetric "horizon hair" for extremal black holes have recently appeared in the literature. In this paper, we propose an expression for a non-axisymmetric gravitational "charge" and its potentially…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-04 Som Dev Bishoyi , Subir Sabharwal , Gaurav Khanna