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The shadows cast by non-rotating and rotating modified gravity (MOG) black holes are determined by the two parameters mass $M$ and angular momentum $J=Ma$. The sizes of the shadows cast by the spherically symmetric static Schwarzschild-MOG…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-26 J. W. Moffat

We describe the dynamical formation of the shadow of a collapsing star in a Hayward spacetime in terms of an observer far away from the center and a free falling observer. By solving the time-like and light-like radial geodesics we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-01 Daniel Nunez , Juan Carlos Degollado

In this work, we derive new analytic, static, symmetric black hole solutions in theories involving dark photons with minimal and higher-order magnetic dipole interactions. Starting from the effective non-relativistic potential between…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-13 Ali Övgün , Reggie C. Pantig

In this paper, we investigate the dynamic phenomenological signatures of a Schwarzschild-MOG black hole shadow perturbed by passing gravitational waves. By perturbing the Hamilton-Jacobi equation for photon null geodesics, we demonstrate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-04 Nikko John Leo S. Lobos , Emmanuel T. Rodulfo

Accretion disks, swirling structures of matter spiraling into black holes, play a pivotal role in our understanding of binary star systems and their intricate evolutionary processes. While current models often simplify these complex…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-26 Seyyed Masoud Hoseyni , Jamshid Ghanbari , Mahboobe Moeen Moghaddas

We have studied the surface geometry and shadows of Schwarzschild black hole with a halo containing the quadrupolar and octopolar terms. We found the quadrupole term makes the Schwarzschild black hole prolate for the quadrupole strength…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-09 Mingzhi Wang , Guanghai Guo , Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing

We analytically investigate the influence of a cosmic expansion on the shadow of the Schwarzschild black hole. We suppose that the expansion is driven by a cosmological constant only and use the Kottler (or Schwarzschild-deSitter) spacetime…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-05 Volker Perlick , Oleg Yu. Tsupko , Gennady S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan

Utilizing concepts from dynamical systems theory, we demonstrate how the existence of light rings, or fixed points, in a spacetime will give rise to families of periodic orbits and invariant manifolds in phase space. It is shown that these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-02 Jai Grover , Alexander Wittig

We study the shadow cast by the H$D$ Schwarzschild-Tangherlini black hole, and analytically calculate the influence of extra dimensions on the shadow of a black hole. A black hole casts a shadow as an optical appearance because of its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-07-25 Balendra Pratap Singh , Sushant G. Ghosh

The recent convergence of gravitational-wave (GW) observations and black hole imaging provides complementary probes of strong-gravity dynamics. While the black hole shadow is typically modeled as a static feature, a dynamically perturbed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-03 Reggie C. Pantig

According to the no-hair theorem, static black holes are described by a Schwarzschild spacetime provided there are no other sources of the gravitational field. This requirement, however, is in astrophysical realistic scenarios often…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-24 Norman Gürlebeck

In this paper, we study the shadow produced by rotating black holes with charge in the presence of an anisotropic matter field. We obtain the apparent shape and the corresponding observables characterizing the size, oblateness, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-24 Javier Badía , Ernesto F. Eiroa

Shadows of multi-black holes have structures distinct from the mere superposition of the shadow of a single black hole: the eyebrow-like structures outside the main shadows and the deformation of the shadows. We present analytic estimates…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-20 Akifumi Yumoto , Daisuke Nitta , Takeshi Chiba , Naoshi Sugiyama

We investigate the influence of the spacetime curvature on the interference of the radiation emitted by an ensemble of scalar sources in circular motion around a Schwarzschild black hole. We pay particular attention to the transition from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-09 Raissa F. P. Mendes , George E. A. Matsas

We envisage a black hole perturbed by a force-free magnetic field (FFMF) outside and attempt to determine its structure. We suppose the metric that describes this black hole is of the static spherical type, that is Schwarzschild, and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-03 Haidar Sheikhahmadi

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

A black hole casts a shadow as an optical appearance because of its strong gravitational field. We study the shadow cast by the five-dimensional Myers-Perry black hole with equal rotation parameters. We demonstrate that the null geodesic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 Uma Papnoi , Farruh Atamurotov , Sushant G. Ghosh , Bobomurat Ahmedov

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

The linear response of a Schwarzschild black hole to an external quadrupolar perturbation is studied in analogy to a mechanical electrodynamical system, with the goal to describe the gravitational polarizability. Its causality properties…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-03 Gabriel Vidal , Gabriel M. Dantas , Riccardo Sturani , Gabriel Menezes

In this paper, we employ a ray-tracing algorithm to simulate the shadows of three equal-mass black holes in static equilibrium across a wide parameter space. We find that the shadows consist of a larger primary shadow and several distorted,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-19 Dan Li , Yuxiang Zuo , Shiyang Hu , Chen Deng , Yu Wang , Wenfu Cao