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A recently developed topological approach offers novel insights into photon spheres, which are fundamental to the formation of black hole shadows. In this study, we extend this topological analysis to higher-dimensional, static, spherically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-28 Jun-Lei Chen , Shan-Ping Wu , Shao-Wen Wei

It was shown that a standard ring of light can be imagined outside the event horizon for stationary rotating four-dimensional black holes with axial symmetry using the topological method\cite{001,002}. Based on this concept, in this paper,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-27 Jafar Sadeghi , Mohammad Ali S. Afshar , Saeed Noori Gashti , Mohammad Reza Alipour

In this paper, we investigate the existence and nature of the photon spheres (PS) in the background of four dimensional static and spherically symmetric black holes in the de Rham-Gabadadze-Tolley (dRGT) massive gravity theory. Apart from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-15 Pavan Kumar Yerra , Chandrasekhar Bhamidipati

In this paper, we investigate the topological photon sphere from two distinct perspectives. In the first view, we examine the existence and characteristics of topological photon(anti-photon)spheres for black holes with different structures,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-15 Jafar Sadeghi , Mohammad Ali S. Afshar

We show that the notion of a black hole mass could be superceded by that of a topological charge in a spacetime without matter and curvature singularity. This feature emerges through a set new spacetime solutions of first order gravity in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-06 Sandipan Sengupta

In this paper, we investigate the topological charge and the conditions for the existence of the photon sphere (PS) in Kiselev-AdS black holes within \(f(R, T)\) gravity. We employ two different methods based on Duan's topological current…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-11 Saeed Noori Gashti , Mohammad Ali S. Afshar , Mohammad Reza Alipour , Yassine Sekhmani , Jafar Sadeghi , Javlon Rayimbaev

In this paper, we base our analysis on the assumption that the existence of a photon sphere is an intrinsic feature of any ultra-compact gravitational structure with spherical symmetry. Utilizing the concept of a topological photon sphere,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-24 Mohammad Ali S. Afshar , Jafar Sadeghi

In this paper, we first consider null geodesics of a class of charged, spherical and asymptotically flat hairy black holes in an Einstein-Maxwell-scalar theory with a non-minimal coupling for the scalar and electromagnetic fields.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-07 Qingyu Gan , Peng Wang , Houwen Wu , Haitang Yang

The study of circular orbits offers profound insights into the structure of spacetime around black holes. While the topological properties of these orbits are well-established for neutral particles, the influence of electric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-20 Yong Song , Jia Li , Yiting Cen , Kai Diao , Xiaofeng Zhao , Shunping Shi

The topology of black hole thermodynamics is a fascinating area of study that explores the connections between thermodynamic properties and topological features of black holes. We successfully derive the field equations for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-25 Yassine Sekhmani , Saeed Noori Gashti , Mohammad Ali S. Afshar , Mohammad Reza Alipour , Jafar Sadeghi , Behnam Pourhassan , Javlon Rayimbaev

In this work, we establish the existence conditions and a universal upper bound on the radius of stable photon spheres (SPS) outside the event horizons of static, spherically symmetric, asymptotically flat black holes surrounded by matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-16 Yong Song , Jiaqi Fu , Yiting Cen

Photon sphere has attracted significant attention since the capture of black hole shadow images by Event Horizon Telescope. Recently, a number of studies have highlighted that the number of photon spheres and their distributions near black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-25 Chen-Kai Qiao

The black hole shadow is fundamentally connected to the structure of light rings and the photon region in the background geometry. We investigate the photon region boundary in a generic asymptotically flat, stationary, axisymmetric black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-09 Prasad Padhye , Kajol Paithankar , Sanved Kolekar

We reconstruct a static and spherically symmetric black hole geometry originally proposed as an effective metric by identifying a consistent matter source derived from a fundamental action. The space-time is supported by a magnetically…

The uniqueness of static asymptotically flat photon sphere for static black hole solution in Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton theory with arbitrary coupling constant was proposed. Using the conformal positive energy theorem we show that the dilaton…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-09 Marek Rogatko

In this work, we study the thermodynamic topology of a static, a charged static and a charged, rotating black hole in $f(R)$ gravity. For charged static black holes, we work in two different ensembles: fixed charge$(q)$ ensemble and fixed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-03 Bidyut Hazarika , Prabwal Phukon

We study the possibility of having Black hole of spherical and ring horizon topology with five independent charges in the $U(1)^3$-model of 5D gauge supergravity. To study these possibilities we consider not only the known result obtained…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Pedro J. Silva

In this study, we explore a spherically symmetric charged black hole with a cosmological constant under the influence of a Kalb--Ramond field background. We compute the photon sphere and shadow radii, validating our findings using…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-07 H. Chen , M. Y. Zhang , A. A. Araújo Filho , F. Hosseinifar , H. Hassanabadi

In this paper, we discuss optical properties of the topologically charged rotating black hole. We study the horizon, the photon region, the shadow of the black hole and other observables. The results show that in addition to the black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-09 Hao-Ran Zhang , Peng-Zhang He , Lei-Shao , Yuan Chen , Xian-Ru Hu

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
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