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We study black hole shadows in nonminimally coupled Weyl connection gravity, a metric-affine extension of general relativity in which spacetime is described by a metric and a Weyl vector field encoding non-metricity. Despite going beyond…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-10 Cláudio Gomes , Margarida Lima , Francisco S. N. Lobo , Luís F. D. da Silva

The so-called black hole shadow is not a silhouette of a black hole but an image of a collapsing object or a white hole. Hence it is non-trivial whether black hole shadows merge with each other when black holes coalesce with each other. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-12 Kazumasa Okabayashi , Nobuyuki Asaka , Ken-ichi Nakao

In this thesis we study aspects of strong-field gravitational lensing by black holes in general relativity, with a particular focus on the role of integrability and chaos in geodesic motion. We first investigate binary black hole shadows…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-12 Jake O. Shipley

We have studied the shadows of a Schwarzschild black hole surrounded by a Bach-Weyl ring through the backward ray-tracing method. The presence of Bach-Weyl ring leads to that the photon dynamical system is non-integrable and then chaos…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-19 Mingzhi Wang , Songbai Chen , Jieci Wang , Jiliang Jing

The established concept of black hole emerged from several results founded on Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. In this article, the relationship between these results is analyzed, and it is pointed out how, in spite of being…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-07-27 Miquel Pinyol Ribas , Ignacio Lopez Aylagas

Black holes are a paradigm in nowadays physics, and are expected to be hosted at the center of galaxies. Supermassive galactic black holes are not isolated, and their surroundings play crucial roles in many observational features. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-04 Caio F. B. Macedo , Luiz C. S. Leite , Luís C. B. Crispino

The photon sphere concept in Schwarzschild space-time is generalized to a definition of a photon surface in an arbitrary space-time. A photon sphere is then defined as an SO(3)xR-invariant photon surface in a static spherically symmetric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-02-22 Clarissa-Marie Claudel , K. S. Virbhadra , G. F. R. Ellis

The presence of a quintessence-like field can influence the black hole shadow through three primary mechanisms: the dynamics of accretion flows, the trajectories of photons, and the motion of observers. Unlike standard shadow analyses that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-13 Ji-Wen Li , Zi-Liang Wang , Tao-Tao Sui

We present the geodesical completion of the Schwarzschild black hole in four dimensions which covers the entire space in (u,v) Kruskal-Szekeres coordinates, including the spacetime behind the black and white hole singularities. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-13 Ignacio J. Araya , Itzhak Bars , Albin James

The Causal Set hypothesis asserts that spacetime, ultimately, is discrete and its underlying structure is that of a locally finite partial ordered set, and macroscopic causality reflects a deeper notion of order in terms of which all the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Dou

We study the local shadow of the Schwarzschild black hole with a quadrupole distortion and the influence of the external gravitational field on the photon dynamics. The external matter sources modify the light ring structure and lead to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-25 Jai Grover , Jutta Kunz , Petya Nedkova , Alexander Wittig , Stoytcho Yazadjiev

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

To understand the nature of a black hole shadow in dynamical spacetimes, we construct an analytical model of a dynamical photon sphere in the context of the Bonnor-Vaidya spacetime. Comparing the resulting photon sphere radius with the one…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-11 Yaghoub Heydarzade , Vitalii Vertogradov

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

We define a family of spacetimes representing isolated black holes exhibiting remarkable universal properties which are natural generalizations from stationary spacetimes. They admit a well defined notion of surface gravity k_H. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-12 Carlos Kozameh , Osvaldo Moreschi , Alejandro Perez

We prove that the anomalous form of Schwarzschild metric within the spatial domain bounded by Schwarzschild pseudosingular surface is a mathematical mishap, devoid of any physical meaning. As a special consequence, the portions of geodesics…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Loinger

Using the Ernst formalism, a novel solution of vacuum general relativity (GR) was recently obtained [1], describing a Schwarzschild black hole (BH) immersed in a nonasymptotically flat rotating background, dubbed swirling universe, with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-30 Zeus S. Moreira , Carlos A. R. Herdeiro , Luís C. B. Crispino

We consider a static, axially symmetric spacetime describing the superposition of a Schwarzschild black hole (BH) with a thin and heavy accretion disk. The BH-disk configuration is a solution of the Einstein field equations within the Weyl…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-17 Pedro V. P. Cunha , Nelson A. Eiró , Carlos A. R. Herdeiro , José P. S. Lemos

A precise definition of a black hole has long been absent in causal set theory. I first show that the local finiteness of the theory cannot be interpreted as a complete discretization condition, and the theory still admits continua, which I…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-08 Yu Asato

Horizons and bound photon orbits are defining features of black holes that translate into key features of black hole images. We present a purely geometric proof that spherically symmetric, isolated objects with horizons in gravity theories…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-16 Raúl Carballo-Rubio , Astrid Eichhorn