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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

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

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

The study of astrophysical phenomena like black hole shadows is an effective approach to properly understand the modified gravity and explore its validity. Motivated by recent astrophysical observations, we consider a black hole (BH) in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-20 Khadije Jafarzade , Zeynab Bazyar , Mubasher Jamil

We investigate the properties of black hole shadows in the renormalization group (RG) improved Bonanno-Reuter spacetime, incorporating quantum gravitational corrections via the scale-dependent parameter $(\tilde{\omega})$ in a plasma…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-13 Shubham Kala

The spacetime singularities in classical general relativity predicted by the celebrated singularity theorems are formed at the end of gravitational collapse. Quantum gravity is the expected theory to resolve the singularity problem, but we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-15 Sushant G. Ghosh , Muhammed Amir , Sunil D. Maharaj

Recent shadow images of Sgr A and M87 captured by Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration confirms the existence of black holes or their possible alternatives in the center of galaxies. On the other hand, the new image of Sgr A in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-16 Fateme Aliyan , Kourosh Nozari

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 Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) image of M87* provides a direct test of strong-field gravity, measuring an angular shadow diameter $\theta_{d}=42\pm 3~\mu\mathrm{as}$ and a circularity deviation $\Delta C\leq 0.1$. Such observations allow…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-13 Kourosh Nozari , Milad Hajebrahimi , Sara Saghafi , G. Mustafa , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

We investigate a rotating black hole embedded in a five-dimensional flat bulk by extending the Kerr metric through the Gurses-Gursey line element. Employing Boyer-Lindquist coordinates, we reinterpret the black hole as a charged-like object…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-10 Abraao J. S. Capistrano , Antonio C. Gutierrez-Pineres , Carlos H. Coimbra-Araujo

The S-stars in the Galactic center (GC) are anticipated to provide unique dynamical constraint on the spin of the GC massive black hole (MBH). In this paper, we develop a fast full general relativistic method to simultaneously constrain the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-02 Fupeng Zhang , Youjun Lu , Qingjuan Yu

We investigate the shadows, accretion disks, and observational images of rotating Ay\'{o}n-Beato-Garc\'{i}a black holes characterized by mass $ M $ , spin $ a $ , and electric charge $ \zeta $ . Our analysis reveals that the shadow size…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-15 Zhenglong Ban , Meng Chen , Rong-Jia Yang

We investigate the shadow cast by a regular black hole in scalar-tensor-vector mOdified gravity theory. This black hole differs from a Schwarzschild-Kerr black hole by the dimensionless parameter $\beta$. The size of the shadow depends on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-09 Subhadip Sau , John W. Moffat

We investigate constraints on the distribution of dark matter in the neighbourhood of the Galactic centre that may eventually be attained with the high-resolution Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). The shadow of a black hole in vacuum is used…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-08-15 Thomas Lacroix , Joseph Silk

In this Letter, we have developed a numerically efficient framework for evaluating parameters in metric theories of gravity, and applied it to constrain the horizon-scale magnetic field in the Kerr-Bertotti-Robinson (Kerr-BR) spacetime…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-26 Wentao Liu , Yang Liu , Di Wu , Yu-Xiao Liu

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) will soon provide the first high-resolution images of the Galactic Centre supermassive black hole (SMBH) candidate Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), enabling us to probe gravity in the strong-field regime. Besides…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-26 C. M. Fromm , Y. Mizuno , Z. Younsi , H. Olivares , O. Porth , M. De Laurentis , H. Falcke , M. Kramer , L. Rezzolla

Vagnozzi et al. constrained the additional parameter of spacetimes with a photon sphere from the observation of the shadow of Sagittarius A* under the assumption that a distance to the Sagittarius A* and its mass parameter was estimated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-19 Naoki Tsukamoto

A brief illustrative discussion of the shadows of black holes at local and cosmological distances is presented. Starting from definition of the term and discussion of recent observations, we then investigate shadows at large, cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-24 G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan , O. Yu. Tsupko , V. Perlick

Combined with the observation of M87*, shadow has gradually became a promising test of the black hole nature. Recently, EHT collaboration gave new constraints on the shadow size at 68\% confidence levels. In this work, we consider the new…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-06 Shao-Wen Wei , Yuan-Chuan Zou

Upcoming VLBI observations will resolve nearby supermassive black holes, most notably Sagittarius A* and M87, on event horizon-scales. Recent observations of Sagittarius A* with the Event Horizon Telescope have revealed horizon-scale…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-15 Ziri Younsi , Oliver Porth , Yosuke Mizuno , Christian M. Fromm , Hector Olivares