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We investigate a static, spherically symmetric black hole solution arising from Einstein gravity coupled to a confining nonlinear electrodynamics model that reproduces Maxwell theory in the strong-field regime while introducing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-23 Erdem Sucu , Izzet Sakallı , Orhan Donmez , G. Mustafa

We give a brief review on the formation and the calculation of black hole shadow. Firstly, we introduce the conception of black hole shadow and the current works on a variety of black hole shadows. Secondly, we present main methods of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-11 Mingzhi Wang , Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing

We examine the geometry of a generalized uncertainty-inspired quantum black hole. The diagonal line element is not $t$-$r$ symmetric, i.e. $g_{00} \ne -1/g_{11}$, which leads to an interesting approach to resolving the classical curvature…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-24 Douglas M. Gingrich , Saeed Rastgoo

We examine the observational discrepancies of two widely used models describing anisotropic (dark) matter distributions around a black hole, focusing on their photon spheres, shadow radii, and lensing observables. The models considered are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-26 M. F. Fauzi , H. S. Ramadhan , A. Sulaksono

Very-long baseline interferometric observations have resolved structure on scales of only a few Schwarzschild radii around the supermassive black holes at the centers of our Galaxy and M87. In the near future, such observations are expected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Tim Johannsen

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

We investigate the influence of Born-Infeld (BI) nonlinear electrodynamics on magnetic field configurations, photon orbits, and black hole shadows for Schwarzschild black holes immersed in magnetic fields. Assuming that the BI magnetic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-03 Yiqian Chen , Guangzhou Guo , Benrong Mu , Peng Wang

We study scattering of waves by black holes. Solving a massless scalar field with a point source in the Schwarzschild spacetime, waves scattered by the black hole is obtained numerically. We then reconstruct images of the black hole from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-15 Ken-ichiro Kanai , Yasusada Nambu

Can the observation of the "shadow" allow us to distinguish a black hole from a more exotic compact object? We study the motion of photons in a class of vacuum static axially-symmetric space-times that is continuously linked to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-12 Askar B. Abdikamalov , Ahmadjon A. Abdujabbarov , Dimitry Ayzenberg , Daniele Malafarina , Cosimo Bambi , Bobomurat Ahmedov

We study the radiative properties of a spherical and singularity-free black-hole geometry recently proposed in the literature. Contrary to the Schwarzschild spacetime, this geometry is geodesically complete and regular, and, instead of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-23 Asier Alonso-Bardaji , David Brizuela , Marc Schneider

In this work, the trajectories of particles around a black bounce spacetime are considered, with the Simpson-Visser model serving as an example. Trajectories for massless and massive particles are obtained through the study of null and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-29 Marcos V. de S. Silva , Manuel E. Rodrigues

The distortion of the spacetime structure in the surroundings of black holes affects the trajectories of light rays. As a consequence, black holes can act as gravitational lenses. Observations of type Ia supernovas, show that our Universe…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-14 Ernesto F. Eiroa , Carlos M. Sendra

Quadratic gravity constitutes a prototypical example of a perturbatively renormalizable quantum theory of the gravitational interactions. In this work, we construct the associated phase space of static, spherically symmetric, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-10 Jesse Daas , Kolja Kuijpers , Frank Saueressig , Michael F. Wondrak , Heino Falcke

We consider deformation of the d+2 dimensional asymptotically flat Schwarzschild black hole spacetime with the induced metric on a d-sphere at $r=r_c$ held fixed. This is done without taking the near horizon limit. The deformation is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-09-13 Ryuichi Nakayama

The photon ring of a Kerr black hole decomposes into a self-similar hierarchy of subrings. Here, we show that this self-similar structure persists in phase space. Moreover, near the photon shell of bound photon orbits, dynamics are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-11 Roman Berens , Peter Galison , Trevor Gravely , Alexandru Lupsasca , Leo C. Stein

In this paper, we derive general conditions for a shadow to occur, without a photon sphere in a spacetime, caused by central nulllike or timelike naked singularities. Using these conditions, we propose classes of spacetimes which have…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-13 Dipanjan Dey , Rajibul Shaikh , Pankaj S. Joshi

The Chern-Simons modification to general relativity in four dimensions consists of adding to the Einstein-Hilbert term a scalar field that couples to the first class Pontryagin density. In this theory, which has attracted considerable…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-06-29 Leonardo Amarilla , Ernesto F. Eiroa , Gaston Giribet

We discuss the opportunity that the singularity inside a Schwarzschild black hole could be replaced by a regular bounce, described as a regular minimum of the spherical radius (instead of zero) and a regular maximum of the longitudinal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-20 S. V. Bolokhov , K. A. Bronnikov , M. V. Skvortsova

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

Schwarzschild black-hole interiors border on space-like singularities representing classical information leaks. We show that local quantum physics is decoupled from these leaks due to dynamically generated boundaries, called Zeno borders.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-12 Ludwig Eglseer , Stefan Hofmann , Marc Schneider