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A chain regularization method is combined with special purpose computer hardware to study the evolution of massive black hole binaries at the centers of galaxies. Preliminary results with up to N=260,000 particles are presented. The decay…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Andras Szell , David Merritt , Seppo Mikkola

We study shadow aspects of superentropic black holes in four dimensions. Using Hamilton-Jacobi formalism, we first get the null geodesic equations. In the celestial coordinate framework relying on fixed positions of observers, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-27 A. Belhaj , H. Belmahi , M. Benali

We study the shadow of a charged rotating black hole in $f(R)$ gravity. This black hole is characterized by mass, $M$, spin, $a$, electric charge, $Q$ and $R_{0}$ which is proportional to cosmological constant. We analyze the image of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-06 Sara Dastan , Reza Saffari , Saheb Soroushfar

We study the superradiant instability of a massive boson around a spinning black hole in full general relativity without assuming spatial symmetries. We focus on the case of a rapidly spinning black hole in the presence of a vector boson…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-28 William E. East

In the string axiverse scenario, light primordial black holes may spin up due to the Hawking emission of a large number of light (sub-MeV) axions. We show that this may trigger superradiant instabilities associated with a heavier axion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-19 Marco Calzà , João G. Rosa , Filipe Serrano

The black hole shadow, a direct probe of the event horizon's gravitational influence, has been observationally confirmed by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). While theoretical models of shadows in vacuum are mature, real astrophysical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-20 Sai Karan Mukthapuram , Sandeep Kumar Kataria

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is a project to assemble a Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) network of mm wavelength dishes that can resolve strong field General Relativistic signatures near a supermassive black hole. As planned,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Ru-Sen Lu , Avery E. Broderick , Fabien Baron , John D. Monnier , Vincent L. Fish , Sheperd S. Doeleman , Victor Pankratius

In this paper we investigate how a regular scale-dependent black hole, characterized by a single extra parameter $\epsilon$, behaves under perturbations by a test field (quasi-normal modes) and under light imaging (shadows) in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-15 Benjamin Koch , Gonzalo J. Olmo , Ali Riahinia , Ángel Rincón , Diego Rubiera-Garcia

We study the shadows of four dimensional black holes in M-theory inspired models. We first inspect the influence of M2-branes on such optical aspects for non-rotating solutions. In particular, we show that the M2-brane number can control…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-21 A. Belhaj , M. Benali , A. El Balali , W. El Hadri , H. El Moumni , E. Torrente-Lujan

Systems of enhanced memory capacity are subjected to a universal effect of memory burden, which suppresses their decay. In this paper, we study a prototype model to show that memory burden can be overcome by rewriting stored quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-18 Gia Dvali , Lukas Eisemann , Marco Michel , Sebastian Zell

Black hole shadow and gravitational lensing play important roles in testing gravitational theories in the strong field regime. As the first-order modifications from quantum gravity, the nonlocality can be manifested by black hole shadow and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-24 Qi-Ming Fu , Shao-Wen Wei , Li Zhao , Yu-Xiao Liu , Xin Zhang

The correlations between the mass of supermassive black holes and properties of their host galaxies are investigated through cosmological simulations. Black holes grow from seeds of 100 solar masses inserted into density peaks present in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Ch. Filloux , F. Durier , J. A. de Freitas Pacheco , J. Silk

We study the shadow of a rotating squashed Kaluza-Klein (KK) black hole and the shadow is found to possess distinct properties from those of usual rotating black holes. It is shown that the shadow for a rotating squashed KK black hole is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-11 Fen Long , Jieci Wang , Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing

Black hole thermodynamics is a crucial and foundational aspect of black hole physics, yet its observational verification remains exceptionally challenging. The photon sphere of a black hole, a manifestation of strong gravitational effects,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-29 Si-Jiang Yang , Shan-Ping Wu , Shao-Wen Wei , Yu-Xiao Liu

We study time evolutions of charged scalar perturbations on the background of a charged hairy black hole, in which the perturbations can be governed by a double-peak effective potential. By extracting quasinormal modes from the waveform of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-26 Guangzhou Guo , Peng Wang , Houwen Wu , Haitang Yang

We study the shadow produced by a class of rotating black holes surrounded by plasma. The metric for these black holes arises by applying the Newman-Janis algorithm to a family of spherically symmetric spacetimes, which includes several…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-08 Javier Badía , Ernesto F. Eiroa

Black hole shadows are a widespread topic in astrophysics. This paper searches for an optical view of the black hole and the relationship between black hole shadow and photon sphere with curvature. We were inspired by the observations of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-26 Ajay Kumar Sharma , Kanav Ganguly , Murli Manohar Verma

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a global submillimeter wavelength very long baseline interferometry array, unveiled event-horizon-scale images of the supermassive black hole M87* as an asymmetric bright emission ring with a diameter of $…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-12 Rahul Kumar , Sushant G. Ghosh

In this paper, we discuss how the shadow of a Kerr black hole depends on the motion of the observer. In particular, we derive an analytical formula for the boundary curve of the shadow for an observer moving with given four-velocity at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-07 Arne Grenzebach

This paper investigates the shadow of a charged rotating non-commutative black hole. For this purpose, we first formulate the null geodesics and study the effects of non-commutative charge on the photon orbit. We then explore the effect of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-21 M. Sharif , Sehrish Iftikhar