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The study of black hole shadows provides a powerful tool for testing the predictions of general relativity and exploring deviations from the standard Kerr metric in the strong gravitational field regime. Here, we investigate the shadow…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-13 Temurbek Mirzaev , Bobomurat Ahmedov , Cosimo Bambi

We study the Cauchy horizon (CH) singularity of a spherical charged black hole perturbed nonlinearly by a self-gravitating massless scalar field. We show numerically that the singularity is weak both at the early and at the late sections of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Lior M. Burko

We determine coherent states peaked at classical space-time of the Schwarzschild black hole in the frame-work of canonical quantisation of general relativity. The information about the horizon is naturally encoded in the phase space…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Arundhati Dasgupta

We consider applications of the curvature radius of a Kerr black hole shadow and propose three new approaches to simultaneously determine the black hole spin and inclination angle of the observer. The first one uses only two symmetric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-27 Shao-Wen Wei , Yuan-Chuan Zou , Yu-Xiao Liu , Robert B. Mann

Using backwards ray tracing, we study the shadows of Kerr black holes with scalar hair (KBHsSH). KBHsSH interpolate continuously between Kerr BHs and boson stars (BSs), so we start by investigating the lensing of light due to BSs. Moving…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-25 Pedro V. P. Cunha , Carlos A. R. Herdeiro , Eugen Radu , Helgi F. Runarsson

Taking the quantum electrodynamics (QED) effect into account, we investigate the geometrical-optics appearance of the Euler-Heisenberg (EH) black hole (BH) under the different accretion flows context, which depends on the BH space-time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-14 Xiao-Xiong Zeng , Ke-Jian He , Guo-Ping Li , En-Wei Liang , Sen Guo

By reexamination of the boundary conditions of wave equation on a black hole horizon it is found not harmonic, but real-valued exponentially time-dependent solutions. This means that quantum particles probably do not cross the Schwarzschild…

General Physics · Physics 2018-05-10 Merab Gogberashvili , Lasha Pantskhava

We study the wave equation for a stationary Lorentzian metric in the case of two space dimensions. Assuming that the metric has a singularity of the appropriate form, surrounded by an ergosphere which is a smooth Jordan curve, we prove the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-08-10 Gregory Eskin , Michael A Hall

Here we provide shadow images of a Kerr-like black hole (BH) in cold dark matter (CDM) halo illuminated with a celestial light source and a thin accretion disk. The impact of spin parameter, critical density and the scale radius on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-13 Xiao-Xiong Zeng , Chen-Yu Yang , M. Israr Aslam , Rabia Saleem , Sadia Aslam

The groundbreaking image of the black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy has raised questions at the intersection of observational astronomy and black hole physics. How well can the radius of a black hole shadow can be measured, and can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-02 Adam Bauer , Alejandro Cárdenas-Avendaño , Charles F. Gammie , Nicolás Yunes

Recently, a black hole model in loop quantum gravity has been proposed by Lewandowski, Ma, Yang and Zhang (Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{130}, 101501 (2023)). The metric tensor of the quantum black hole (QBH) is a suitably modified Schwarzschild…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-30 Jing-Peng Ye , Zhi-Qing He , Ai-Xu Zhou , Zi-Yang Huang , Jia-Hui Huang

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 investigate the effects of quintessence dark energy on the shadows of black hole, surrounded by various profiles of accretions. For the thin disk accretion, the images of the black hole comprises the dark region and bright region,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-02 Xiao-Xiong Zeng , Hai-Qing Zhang

Localization phenomena in light scattering from random fluctuations of matter fields and spacetime metric near a black hole horizon were predicted to produce a pronounced peak in the angular distribution of second harmonic light in the…

General Physics · Physics 2022-06-09 Igor I. Smolyaninov

We study the prospects of using the low-redshift and high-redshift black hole shadows as new cosmological standard rulers for measuring cosmological parameters. We show that, using the low-redshift observation of the black hole shadow of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-28 Jing-Zhao Qi , Xin Zhang

A black hole casts a shadow as an optical appearance because of its strong gravitational field. We study how to determine the spin parameter and the inclination angle by observing the apparent shape of the shadow, which is distorted mainly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-08-05 Kenta Hioki , Kei-ichi Maeda

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

Using a noncommutative inspired Einstein-Euler-Heisenberg black hole, we analyse the associated graviton and light rings that together with the event horizon, provide the necessary components to build its shadow. An analysis of the angular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-27 Marco Maceda , Alfredo Macías , Daniel Martínez-Carbajal

We show that the near horizon of a generic non-extremal black hole (BH) can be understood in terms of a Carrollian geometry with two null directions, also called a String-Carroll (SC) geometry. The base space of this fibre-bundle structure…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-25 Arjun Bagchi , Arkachur Bhattacharya , Sharang Rajesh Iyer , K. Narayan

We investigate Einstein-\AE ther gravity in light of the recent Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observations of the M87*. The shape and size of the observed black hole shadow contains information of the geometry in its vicinity, and thus one…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-20 Mohsen Khodadi , Emmanuel N. Saridakis
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