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We study the shadow of rotating charge black holes in the presence of quintessence. The shadow of a rotating black hole is a distorted circle and in our study, we find that the shape and size of the black hole shadow depend upon four…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-05 Balendra Pratap Singh

Plasma, as a medium around the black hole for light propagation, is known to visibly alter the shape of its shadow and the observables, which could impact the interpretation of the Event Horizon Telescope results. In this study, we examine…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-13 Connor McMillin , Zhichen Guan , Owen Gartlan , Lotus Liu , Leo Rodriguez , Shanshan Rodriguez

In this paper, we investigate the photon regions, shadow, and observational constraints of a Kerr-Newman-like black hole in Bumblebee gravity within a plasma medium. By employing a specific non-homogeneous power-law plasma model to ensure…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-28 Jian-Peng Zhang , Yu Zhang , Li Han

Recently Holz & Wheeler (2002) considered a very attracting possibility to detect retro-MACHOs, i.e. retro-images of the Sun by a Schwarzschild black hole. In this paper we discuss glories (mirages) formed near rapidly rotating Kerr black…

Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-10 A. F. Zakharov , A. A. Nucita , F. DePaolis , G. Ingrosso

Loop quantum gravity inspired partial polymer quantization in four-dimensional spacetime leads to a globally regular black hole with a single horizon. The polymerized black hole metric is characterized by the minimum length parameter $k$,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-14 Rahul Kumar Walia

The shadow of a rotating black hole with nonvanishing gravitomagnetic charge has been studied. It was shown that in addition to the angular momentum of black hole the gravitomagnetic charge term deforms the shape of the black hole shadow.…

Imaging of the shadow around supermassive black hole (SMBH) horizon with a very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) is recognized recently as a powerful tool for experimental testing of Einstein's General relativity. The Event Horizon…

The presence of a bright "photon ring" surrounding a dark "black hole shadow" has been discussed as an important feature of the observational appearance of emission originating near a black hole. We clarify the meaning and relevance of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-17 Samuel E. Gralla , Daniel E. Holz , Robert M. Wald

Since it was theorized by Kerr in 1963, determining the spin of black holes from observed data was paid very little attention until few years back. The main reasons behind this were the unavailability of adequate data and the lack of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-11-20 Banibrata Mukhopadhyay , Debbijoy Bhattacharya , P. Sreekumar

We consider the rotating generalization of the Bardeen black hole solution in the presence of cloud of strings (CoS). The parameter space for which the black hole horizon exists is determined. We also study the static limit surface and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-01 Bijendra Kumar Vishvakarma , Dharm Veer Singh , Sanjay Siwach

The spacetime around astrophysical black holes is thought to be described by the Kerr solution. However, even within general relativity, there is not yet a proof that the final product of the complete collapse of an uncharged body can only…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-26 Jiahao Tao , Shafqat Riaz , Biao Zhou , Askar B. Abdikamalov , Cosimo Bambi , Daniele Malafarina

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

Several works over the past years have discussed the possibility of testing fundamental physics using Very Long Baseline Interferometry horizon-scale black hole (BH) images, such as the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) images of M87$^*$ and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-31 Sunny Vagnozzi , Luca Visinelli

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

The recent time witnessed a surge of interest in strong gravitational lensing by black holes is due to the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) results, which suggest comparing the black hole lensing in both general relativity and heterotic string…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-25 Sushant G. Ghosh , Rahul Kumar , Shafqat Ul Islam

The study of shadows of static and rotating black holes immersed in various dark matter halo profiles has gained significant attention in recent years. In this paper, we consider the static black hole solution immersed in three dark matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-19 Malihe Heydari-Fard , Mohaddese Heydari-Fard

In general relativity, isolated black holes are invisible due to an infinitely large redshift of photons propagating from the event horizon to the remote observer. However, the dark shadow (silhouette) of a black hole can be visible on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-31 Vyacheslav I. Dokuchaev , Natalia O. Nazarova

The motion of photons around black holes determines the shape of shadow and match the ringdown properties of a perturbed black hole. Observations of shadows and ringdown waveforms will reveal the nature of black holes. In this paper, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-29 Song Li , Ahmadjon A. Abdujabbarov , Wen-Biao Han

We investigate the relationship between shadow radius and microstructure for a general static spherically symmetric black hole and confirm their close connection. In this regard, we take the Reissner-Nordstr\"om (AdS) black hole as an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-15 Xin-Chang Cai , Yan-Gang Miao

We revisit to investigate shadows cast by Kerr-like wormholes. The boundary of the shadow is determined by unstable circular photon orbits. We find that, in certain parameter regions, the orbit is located at the throat of the Kerr-like…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-28 Shinta Kasuya , Masataka Kobayashi