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By considering the celestial light source and the thin disk source, we employ the backward ray-tracing method to carefully study the shadow, inner shadow and observational images of the non-singular rotating black holes in loop quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-30 Guo-Ping Li , He-Bin Zheng , Ke-Jian He , Qing-Quan Jiang

The recent detection of gravitational waves from black hole coalescences and the first image of the black hole shadow enhance the possibilities of testing gravitational theories in the strong-field regime. In this paper, we study the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-27 Che-Yu Chen

In this paper, we mainly investigate the shadow of a rotating charged black hole with a cosmological constant immersed in perfect fluid dark matter. We first obtain the charged spherically symmetric black hole with a cosmological constant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-13 Zheng-Long Ban , Xiao-Jun Gao , Jinsong Yang

Motivated by inclination of the Earth's orbit that is not located at galactic plane for observing the shadow of Sgr A*, we consider the black hole shadow for arbitrary inclinations and different velocities of observers. A surprising finding…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-07 Zhe Chang , Qing-Hua Zhu

We explore a simple spherical model of optically thin accretion on a Schwarzschild black hole, and study the properties of the image as seen by a distant observer. We show that a dark circular region in the center --- a shadow --- is always…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-11 Ramesh Narayan , Michael D. Johnson , Charles F. Gammie

Using the Ernst formalism, a novel solution of vacuum general relativity (GR) was recently obtained [1], describing a Schwarzschild black hole (BH) immersed in a nonasymptotically flat rotating background, dubbed swirling universe, with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-30 Zeus S. Moreira , Carlos A. R. Herdeiro , Luís C. B. Crispino

We study the shadow produced by a spinning 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. We find that,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-03-01 Leonardo Amarilla , Ernesto F. Eiroa

We discuss the horizon properties, shadow cast, and the weak gravitational lensing of charged rotating regular black holes, which in addition to mass ($M$) and rotation parameter ($a$) have an electric charge ($Q$) and magnetic charge…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-12 Rahul Kumar , Sushant G. Ghosh , Anzhong Wang

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

We find that a \textit{slowly} rotating axion-modified black hole resulting from the backreaction of an axion field on a rotating Kerr black hole can have a \textit{D-shaped} shadow as that for a \textit{highly} counter-rotating Kerr black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-24 Xiao-Mei Kuang , Yuan Meng , Eleftherios Papantonopoulos , Xi-Jing Wang

In this work, starting from a spherically symmetric polytropic black hole, a rotating solution is obtained by following the Newman--Janis algorithm without complexification. Besides studying the horizon, the static conditions and causality…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-23 E. Contreras , J. M. Ramirez-Velasquez , Á. Rincón , G. Panotopoulos , P. Bargueño

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 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

First sketch of black hole from M87 galaxy was obtained by Event Horizon Telescope, recently. As appearance of black hole shadow reflects space-time geometry of black holes, observations of black hole shadow may be a promising way to test…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-30 Zhe Chang , Qing-Hua Zhu

Can we determine a spin parameter of a black hole by observation of a black hole shadow in an accretion disk? In order to answer this question, we make a qualitative analysis and a quantitative analysis of a shape and a position of a black…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-10 Rohta Takahashi

Black hole shadows and photon spheres offer valuable tools for investigating black hole properties. Recent observations by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration have confirmed the existence of rotating black holes. Black hole parameters…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-26 Vitalii Vertogradov , Ali Övgün , Reggie C. Pantig

This study investigates the visual characteristics of a rotating black hole (BH) within the fabric of $4$D Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity illuminated with two illumination models, such as a celestial light sphere and a thin accretion disk.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-22 Muhammad Israr Aslam , Manahil Ali , Abdul Malik Sultan , Xiao-Xiong Zeng , Sultan Hussain

We have studied the shadows of a Schwarzschild black hole surrounded by a Bach-Weyl ring through the backward ray-tracing method. The presence of Bach-Weyl ring leads to that the photon dynamical system is non-integrable and then chaos…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-19 Mingzhi Wang , Songbai Chen , Jieci Wang , Jiliang Jing

The presence of a photon region around the black hole is an essential feature in receiving the emitted spectrum from the vicinity of the black hole by the distant observer. In this paper, we investigate the optical properties of rotating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-26 Balendra Pratap Singh , Md Sabir Ali , Sushant~G. ~Ghosh

We describe and present the first observational evidence that light propagating near a rotating black hole is twisted in phase and carries orbital angular momentum. The novel use of this physical observable as an additional tool for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-02 Fabrizio Tamburini , Fabiano Feleppa , Bo Thidé