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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

We examine the shadow of a rotating 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 of the compact object.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-14 Leonardo Amarilla , Ernesto F. Eiroa

The shadows of black holes encode significant information about the properties of black holes and the spacetime surrounding them. So far, the effects of dispersive media, such as plasma, and relativistic aberration on the propagation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-21 Gastón Briozzo , Emanuel Gallo , Thomas Mädler

A certain type of matter with anisotropic pressures can add to the Reissner-Nordstr\"om metric a term proportional to a power of the radial coordinate. Using the standard method of separating variables for the Hamilton-Jacobi equation, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-30 Javier Badía , Ernesto F. Eiroa

Black holes (BH) are objects described by General Relativity (GR), particularly by the Kerr solution. However, this solution is based on simplifying assumptions. To achieve a more realistic approach, we investigate the impact of deviations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-22 F. Agurto-Sepulveda , J. H Lagunas , J. Pedreros , B. Bandyopadhyay , D. R. G Schleicher

In this paper, the shadows cast by Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton-Axion black hole and naked singularity are studied. The shadow of a rotating black hole is found to be a dark zone covered by a deformed circle. For a fixed value of the spin $a$,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-12-03 Shao-Wen Wei , Yu-Xiao Liu

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

The apparent shadow of a black hole provides one of the most direct probes of strong-field general relativity. While the shadow size in asymptotically flat spacetimes is well understood, the influence of cosmic expansion on its apparent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-26 Debarshi Mukherjee

It is now known that the shadow is not only the property of a black hole, it can also be cast by other compact objects like naked singularities. However, there exist some novel features of the shadow of the naked singularities which are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-14 Parth Bambhaniya , Dipanjan Dey , Ashok B. Joshi , Pankaj S. Joshi , Divyesh N. Solanki , Aadarsh Mehta

We calculate the characteristics of the "black hole shadow" for a rotating, neutral black hole in fourth-order conformal Weyl gravity. It is shown that the morphology is not significantly affected by the underlying framework, except for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-13 Jonas R. Mureika , Gabriele U. Varieschi

This paper investigates photon motion in black hole of Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton theory, exploring black hole shadows and observational characteristics under various accretion models. We first give the relation of the event horizon, photon…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-16 Junlin Qin , Hong-Er Gong , Yusen Wang , Zhan-Feng Mai , Bofeng Wu , Sen Guo , Enwei Liang

In 4-dimensional General Relativity, black holes are described by the Kerr solution and are completely specified by their mass $M$ and by their spin angular momentum $J$. A fundamental limit for a black hole in General Relativity is the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-13 Cosimo Bambi

When an accretion flow extends to the event horizon, their intersection defines the contour of the inner shadow. However, the morphological evolution of this critical feature remains largely unexplored within a torn accretion disk system, a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-28 Shiyang Hu , Dan Li , Chen Deng , Kejian He

An analytical model of a parabolic screen illuminating a black hole is proposed. This allows to avoid naturally the appearance of edge effects associated with photons moving along the plane of the screen. The temperature distribution along…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-17 Elena V. Mikheeva , Serge Repin , Vladimir N. Lukash

The black hole shadow, first observed by the Event Horizon Telescope in 2017, is the newest method for studying black holes and understanding gravity. Much work has gone into understanding the shadow of a Kerr black hole, including all of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-25 Dimitry Ayzenberg

We study the black hole's shadow for Schwarzschild - de Sitter and Kerr - de Sitter metrics with the contribution of the cosmological constant \Lambda. Based on the reported parameters of the M87* black hole shadow we obtain constraints for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-29 A. Stepanian , Sh. Khlghatyan , V. G. Gurzadyan

We analytically investigate the shadows cast by rotating black holes in the asymptotically safe gravity (ASG) by deriving complete null geodesics and observables using the Hamilton-Jacobi equation and Carter separable method. It turns out…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-13 Rahul Kumar , Balendra Pratap Singh , Sushant G. Ghosh

It is shown for a spherically symmetric black hole of general type that it is impossible to observe the infinite future of the Universe external to the hole during the finite proper time interval of the free fall. Quantitative evaluations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-01-08 Yu. V. Pavlov

Light deviation around a rotating black hole is calculated using the Kerr metric for both small and large deviation angles. For small angles the Lindstedt-Poincar\'e method is employed to get well-behaved solutions, as well as Pad\'e…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-16 Pablo Ruales , Carlos Marín

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