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Electromagnetic observations have been used over the past decades to understand the nature of black holes and the material around them. Our ability to learn about the fundamental physics relies on our understanding of two key ingredients in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-24 Alejandro Cardenas-Avendano , Jaxen Godfrey , Nicolas Yunes , Anne Lohfink

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration recently unveiled the first image of the supermassive black hole M87*, which exhibited a ring of angular diameter $\theta_{d}=42 \pm 3 \mu as$, a circularity deviation $\Delta C \leq 0.1$, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-17 Misba Afrin , Sushant G. Ghosh

Recent observations of the supermassive black holes M87* and Sgr A* by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) have opened new avenues for testing gravity theories through black hole shadow observables. These observations offer a means to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-05 Mohsen Fathi , Yassine Sekhmani

Recently Alexeyev et al. published paper (J. Theor. Exper. Phys. v. 165, N 4, p. 508 in Russian; arXiv:2404.16079 [gr-qc], the reference is given also in [1]). In the paper the authors discussed an opportunity of estimating spins from the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-17 Alexander F. Zakharov

We show that, away from the axis of symmetry, no continuous degeneration exists between the shadows of observers at any point in the exterior region of any Kerr-Newman black hole spacetime of unit mass. Therefore, except possibly for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-29 Marc Mars , Claudio F. Paganini , Marius A. Oancea

This work is geared towards analysis of shadows cast by Kerr-de Sitter (KdS) and Kerr-de Sitter Revisited (RKdS) black holes. Considering observers in the vicinity of the static radius, we derive the impact parameters defining the apparent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-17 Eunice Omwoyo , Humberto Belich , Júlio C. Fabris , Hermano Velten

Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) is the central supermassive black hole with the mass $\sim 4\times 10^6 M_{\odot}$ in the Milky Way and stars are orbiting around it. In May 2018, one of the nearest stars to Sgr A* named S0-2/S2 experienced the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-12 Yohsuke Takamori , Shogo Nishiyama , Takayuki Ohgami , Hiromi Saida , Rio Saitou , Masaaki Takahashi

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

In this study, we have considered the Kerr-like black hole (BH) model in Horndeski gravity and analyse the visual characteristics of shadow images under two illumination models, such as a celestial light source and a thin accretion disk. To…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-09 Xiao-Xiong Zeng , Chen-Yu Yang , M. Israr Aslam , Rabia Saleem

Aims. In order to understand the anisotropic properties of local radiation field in the curved spacetime around a rotating black hole, we investigate the appearance of a black hole seen by an observer located near the black hole. When the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Rohta Takahashi , Masaaki Takahashi

We analyze the shadow of charged stationary axially symmetric space-time (Kerr-Sen dilaton-axion black hole). This black hole is defined by a mass $M$, a spin $a$ and $r_{\alpha}=Q^{2}/M$, where $Q$ is the electric charge. Shadows are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-01 Sara Dastan , Reza Saffari , Saheb Soroushfar

The EHT observation revealed event horizon-scale images of the supermassive black holes Sgr A* and M87* and these results are consistent with the shadow of a Kerr black hole as predicted by general relativity. However, Kerr-like rotating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-10 Shafqat Ul Islam , Sushant G. Ghosh , Sunil D. Maharaj

We study a number of well-motivated theories of modified gravity with the common overarching theme that they predict the existence of compact objects such as black holes and wormholes endowed with scalar hair. We compute the shadow radius…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-13 Georgios Antoniou , Alexandros Papageorgiou , Panagiota Kanti

We investigate the shadow, deflection angle, and the greybody bounding of a Schwarzschild-AdS/dS black hole in scale-dependent gravity. We used the EHT data to constrain the parameter $\epsilon$. We have found that within the $1\sigma$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-06 Ali Övgün , Reggie C. Pantig , Ángel Rincón

During the glorious success of the EHT in providing the first image of a black hole, numerous papers have been published about the effect of different astrophysical environments on black hole geometry. Motivated by the work on how…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-08 Reggie C. Pantig

We consider a spherically symmetric black hole metric in (3+1)-dimensions in presence of a positive cosmological constant $\Lambda$. We use a general approach as proposed in \cite{1} to transform the metric in co-moving coordinates. Then…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-12 Anish Das , Ashis Saha , Sunandan Gangopadhyay

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

It is widely believed that Sgr A$^*$, located at the center of our Galaxy, is a supermassive black hole. Recent observations of its shadow and long-term monitoring of the S2 star have provided compelling evidence supporting this hypothesis.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-07 Zhen Li

Motivated by the recent work about the Extended Uncertainty Principle (EUP) black holes \cite{Mureika:2018gxl}, we present in this study its extension called the Generalized Extended Uncertainty Principle (GEUP) black holes. In particular,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-08 Nikko John Leo S. Lobos , Reggie C. Pantig

In this paper, we study the influence of the parameters for the accelerating Kerr-Newman black hole on the shadows and the constraints, extensively. We find that the rotating parameter $a$, the charge parameter $e$, and the inclination…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-21 Tao-Tao Sui , Qi-Ming Fu , Wen-Di Guo