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The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has significantly advanced our ability to study black holes, achieving unprecedented spatial resolution and revealing horizon-scale structures. Notably, these observations feature a distinctive dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-22 Yifan Chen , Ran Ding , Yuxin Liu , Yosuke Mizuno , Jing Shu , Haiyue Yu , Yanjie Zeng

Advancements in the black hole shadow observations may allow us not only to investigate physics in the strong gravity regime, but also to use them in cosmological studies. In this paper, we propose to use the shadow of supermassive black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-21 Oleg Yu. Tsupko , Zuhui Fan , Gennady S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan

This paper explores how time-varying increases in mass accretion onto rapidly spinning black holes influence their long-term spin evolution when affected by superradiance - a process where energy is extracted from the black hole by a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-18 Adithya Nandakumar , Ricarda S. Beckmann , Vid Irsic

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

The use of modern effective field theory techniques has sparked significant developments in many areas of physics, including the study of gravity. Case in point, such techniques have recently been used to show that binary black holes can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-23 Leong Khim Wong

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

In this paper, by exploring the photon motion in the region near the Bardeen black hole, the shadow and observation properties of the black hole surrounded by various accretion models are studied. We analyzed the changes in shadow imaging…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-17 Ke-Jian He , Sen Guo , Shuang-Cheng Tan , Guo-Ping Li

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

In this work, we examine the optical behaviors and thermodynamic phase structures using shadow analysis for four $\mathbb{S}\mathbb{T}\mathbb{U}$ black holes. The study is conducted for four cases of charge configurations on the parameter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-25 Yassine Sekhmani , Dhruba Jyoti Gogoi , Ratbay Myrzakulov , Giuseppe Gaetano Luciano , Javlon Rayimbaev

Rotating black holes can form dense boson clouds through superradiant instability, making Kerr black holes a powerful probe of ultralight massive bosons. Previous studies of black hole superradiance have often treated bosonic fields…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-09 Lingyun Fu , Hidetoshi Omiya , Takahiro Tanaka , Xi Tong , Yi Wang , Hui-Yu Zhu

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

We briefly review some recent advances in the study of the shadows of rotating black holes in alternative theories. The size and the shape of the shadow depend on the mass and the angular momentum, and they can also depend on other…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-21 Leonardo Amarilla , Ernesto F. Eiroa

Under some conditions, light boson fields grow exponentially around a rotating black hole, called the superradiance instability. We discuss effects of nonlinear interactions of the boson on the instability. In particular, we focus on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-19 Hajime Fukuda , Kazunori Nakayama

We consider non-commutating Simpson-Visser spacetime and study the superradiance phenomena and the shadow cast by the back hole associated with this modified spacetime. We extensively study the different aspects of the black hole associated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-30 Sohan Kumar Jha , Anisur Rahaman

We consider the evolution of primordial black holes in a generalyzed Jordan-Brans-Dicke cosmological model where both the Brans-Dicke scalar field and its coupling to gravity are dynamical functions determined from the evolution equations.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 A. S. Majumdar , D. Gangopadhyay , L. P. Singh

We describe the full nonlinear development of the superradiant instability for a charged massless scalar field, coupled to general relativity and electromagnetism, in the vicinity of a Reissner-Nordstrom-AdS black hole. The presence of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-13 Pablo Bosch , Stephen R. Green , Luis Lehner

We investigate the dynamic shadows of a black hole with a self-interacting massive complex scalar hair. The complex scalar field \psi evolves with time t, and its magnitude on the apparent horizon |\psi_{h}| starts from zero, undergoes a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-25 Mingzhi Wang , Cheng-Yong Zhang , Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing

We study the shadow behaviors of five dimensional (5D) black holes embedded in type IIB superstring/supergravity inspired spacetimes by considering solutions with and without rotations. Geometrical properties as shapes and sizes are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-23 A. Belhaj , H. Belmahi , M. Benali , W. El Hadri , H. El Moumni , E. Torrente-Lujan

Black hole superradiance, which only relies on gravitational interactions, can provide a powerful probe of the existence of ultralight bosons that are weakly coupled to ordinary matter. However, as a boson cloud grows through superradiance,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-04 William E. East

Black hole superradiance is a powerful probe of light, weakly-coupled hidden sector particles. Many candidate particles, such as axions, generically have self-interactions that can influence the evolution of the superradiant instability. As…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-26 Masha Baryakhtar , Marios Galanis , Robert Lasenby , Olivier Simon