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Future black hole (BH) imaging observations are expected to resolve finer features corresponding to higher-order images of hotspots and of the horizon-scale accretion flow. In spherical spacetimes, the image order is determined by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-28 Prashant Kocherlakota , Luciano Rezzolla , Rittick Roy , Maciek Wielgus

In the Einstein-Maxwell theory with nonlinear electrodynamics (NED) fields, the singularity problem in general relativity is potentially resolved, leading to regular black hole solutions. In NED theories, photons follow null geodesics of an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-23 Rahul Kumar Walia

This research delves into the optical characteristics of stationary, spherically symmetric black holes. These black holes follow the Konoplya-Zhidenko deformation rule in arbitrary gravity theories. This research finds that the effects of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-28 Qiao Yue , Zhaoyi Xu , Meirong Tang

In this work, we consider two recently introduced novel regular black hole solutions and investigate the circular null geodesics to find the connection between the photon sphere, the horizon and the black hole shadow radii. We also study…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-01 Khadije Jafarzade , Mahdi Kord Zangeneh , Francisco S. N. Lobo

Light circling around an astrophysical black hole can spend a long time skirting its unstably bound photon orbits before escaping to infinity. To a distant observer, this orbiting light would appear as a bright ring encircling the image of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-10 Stéphane Detournay , Sahaja Kanuri , Alexandru Lupsasca , Philippe Spindel , Quentin Vandermiers , Raphaela Wutte

Black hole images present an annular region of enhanced brightness. In the absence of propagation effects, this "photon ring" has universal features that are completely governed by general relativity and independent of the details of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-15 Elizabeth Himwich , Michael D. Johnson , Alexandru Lupsasca , Andrew Strominger

For an observer, the Black Hole (BH) shadow is the BH's apparent image in the sky due to the gravitational lensing of nearby radiation, emitted by an external source. A recent class of solutions dubbed Kerr BHs with scalar hair possess…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-17 Pedro V. P. Cunha , Carlos A. R. Herdeiro , Eugen Radu , Helgi F. Runarsson

We investigate the spherical photon orbits in near-extremal Kerr spacetimes. We show that the spherical photon orbits with impact parameters in a finite range converge on the event horizon. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the Weyl…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-04 Takahisa Igata , Hideki Ishihara , Yu Yasunishi

Analyzing exact solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell equations in the Kerr-Schild formalism we show that black hole horizon is instable with respect to electromagnetic excitations. Contrary to perturbative smooth harmonic solutions, the exact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-03-18 Alexander Burinskii

We show that scalar hair can be added to rotating, vacuum black holes of general relativity. These hairy black holes (HBHs) clarify a lingering question concerning gravitational solitons: if a black hole can be added at the centre of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 Carlos A. R. Herdeiro , Eugen Radu

Fundamental bosonic fields of arbitrary spin are predicted by generic extensions of the Standard Model and of General Relativity, and are well-motivated candidates to explain the dark components of the Universe. One of most promising…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-19 Richard Brito

We study the influence of the tidal charge parameter of the braneworld models onto some optical phenomena in rotating black hole spacetimes. The escape photon cones are determined for special families of locally non-rotating, circular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-27 Jan Schee , Zdenek Stuchlik

Soft hairs are an intrinsic infrared feature of a black hole, which may also affect near-horizon physics. In this work, we study some of the subtleties surrounding one of the primary observables with which we can study their effects in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-16 Feng-Li Lin , Avani Patel , Jason Payne

The spherical photon orbits around a black hole with constant radii are particular important in astrophysical observations of the black hole. In this paper, the equatorial and non-equatorial spherical photon orbits around Kerr-Newman black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-08 Ying-Xuan Chen , Jia-Hui Huang , Haoxiang Jiang

The possibility that primordial black holes (PBHs) are the dark matter (or a fraction thereof) has attracted much attention recently. Their spatial clustering is a fundamental property which determines, among others, whether current…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-18 Vincent Desjacques , Antonio Riotto

In this article, we study the particle dynamics around a static and spherically symmetric Bardeen-Kiselev black hole (BK BH) which is a solution of the Einstein-non-linear Maxwell field equations along with a quintessential field. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-24 Javlon Rayimbaev , Bushra Majeed , Mubasher Jamil , Kimet Jusufi , Anzhong Wang

The Event Horizon Telescope, a global submillimeter wavelength very long baseline interferometry array, produced the first image of supermassive black hole M87* showing a ring of diameter $\theta_d= 42\pm 3\,\mu$as, inferred a black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-18 Rahul Kumar , Amit Kumar , Sushant G. Ghosh

We investigate strong gravitational lensing using magnetized Kerr black holes (MKBHs), which are accurate Kerr-Bertotti-Robinson solutions for Kerr black holes in a uniform magnetic field with additional magnetic field strength $B$ apart…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-28 Amnish Vachher , Arun Kumar , Sushant G. Ghosh

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) imaging of the supermassive black holes at the centers of Messier 87 galaxy and the Milky Way galaxy marks a significant step in observing the photon rings and central brightness depression that define the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-14 Soroush Zare , Luis M. Nieto , Xing-Hui Feng , Shi-Hai Dong , Hassan Hassanabadi

In four-dimensional scalar-tensor theories derived via dimensional regularization with a conformal rescaling of the metric, we study the stability of planar black holes (BHs) whose horizons are described by two-dimensional compact Einstein…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-02 Antonio De Felice , Shinji Tsujikawa