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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

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

Motivated by recent astrophysical observations, we investigate the shadow behaviors of four dimensional charged rotating black holes with a cosmological constant. This study is made in terms of a reduced moduli space parameterized by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-30 A. Belhaj , M. Benali , A. El Balali , W. El Hadri , H. El Moumni

The behavior of black holes horizon and wormholes under the Weyl conformal transformation is investigated. First, a shorter, but more general, derivation of the Weyl transformation of the simple prescription for detecting horizons and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-14 Fayçal Hammad

It is shown that the surface gravity and temperature of a stationary black hole are invariant under conformal transformations of the metric that are the identity at infinity. More precisely, we find a conformal invariant definition of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 Ted Jacobson , Gungwon Kang

Weyl conformal symmetry can solve the problem the spacetime singularities present in Einstein's gravity. In a recent paper, two of us have found a singularity-free rotating black hole solution in conformal gravity. In addition to the mass…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-11 Cosimo Bambi , Zheng Cao , Leonardo Modesto

The shadow of a black hole serves as a pristine window into the strong-gravity regime, with cuspy feature emerging as a smoking-gun signature of physics beyond the Kerr paradigm. In this paper, we extend the work of [arXiv:2601.15612…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-07 Shao-Wen Wei , Yu-Xiao Liu

We study the equivalence principle, regarded as the cornerstone of general relativity, by analyzing the deformation observable of black hole shadows. Such deformation can arise from new physics and may be expressed as a phenomenological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-22 Chunlong Li , Sheng-Feng Yan , Lingqin Xue , Xin Ren , Yi-Fu Cai , Damien A. Easson , Ye-Fei Yuan , Hongsheng Zhao

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

We determine hidden conformal symmetries behind the evolution equations of black hole perturbations in a vector-tensor theory of gravity. Such hidden symmetries are valid everywhere in the exterior region of a spherically symmetric,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-04 Bill Atkins , Gianmassimo Tasinato

The existence of black hole shadows is one of the most interesting effects of the strong field regime of general relativity (GR). Recent observations by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) have provided high-resolution images of the vicinity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-29 Jose R. Nascimento , Ana R. M. Oliveira , Albert Yu. Petrov , Paulo J. Porfírio , Amilcar R. Queiroz

This paper investigates the shadow of a charged rotating non-commutative black hole. For this purpose, we first formulate the null geodesics and study the effects of non-commutative charge on the photon orbit. We then explore the effect of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-21 M. Sharif , Sehrish Iftikhar

We explore the shadow of certain class of rotating traversable wormholes within classical general relativity. The images depend on the angular momentum of the wormhole, and the inclination angle of the observer. We compare the results with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-16 Petya G. Nedkova , Vassil Tinchev , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

Shadows cast by the rotating black hole in perfect fluid matter are studied using analytical method. We consider three kinds of matter with standard equation of state in Cosmology: $-1/3$ (dark matter), 0 (dust) and $1/3$ (radiation). The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-31 Zhaoyi Xu , Xian Hou , Jiancheng Wang

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

Symmergent gravity is the $R+R^2$ gravity theory which emerges in a way restoring gauge symmetries broken explicitly by the ultraviolet cutoff in effective field theories. To test symmergent gravity we construct novel black hole solutions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-09 İrfan Çimdiker , Durmuş Demir , Ali Övgün

Black and white holes play remarkably contrasting roles in general relativity versus observational astrophysics. While there is overwhelming observational evidence for the existence of compact objects that are "cold, dark, and heavy", which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-20 Rudeep Gaur , Matt Visser

In this work, we delve into the physics of charged black holes modified by Weyl corrections, a framework that emerges from the subtle non--minimal coupling between spacetime curvature and electromagnetism. We begin by revisiting the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-22 Hassan Hassanabadi , Mrinnoy M. Gohain , Kalyan Bhuyan , Farokhnaz Hosseinifar

Recently the quantum Oppenheimer-Snyder gravitational collapse model has been proposed in loop quantum gravity, providing quantum-corrected Schwarzschild spacetimes as the exterior of the collapsing dust ball. In this paper, the quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-20 Jinsong Yang , Cong Zhang , Yongge Ma

In this study, we investigate the black hole shadow of an exact black hole solution of the loop quantum gravity (LQG) theory. We discuss some of its optical characteristics after generalizing it to the rotational case, including null…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-21 Shu Luo , Cheng-Hao Li