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Ongoing astronomical efforts extract physical properties of black holes from electromagnetic emissions in their near-vicinity. This requires finding the null geodesics which extend from the near-horizon region out to a distant observatory.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-09 Achilleas P. Porfyriadis , Yichen Shi , Andrew Strominger

In this paper, we investigate so-called spherical photon orbits around a deformed Kerr black hole with an extra deformation parameter. The change in the azimuth $\Delta\varphi$ and the angle of dragging of nodes per revolution $\Delta\Omega…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-29 Changqing Liu , Chikun Ding , Jiliang Jing

Horizon fluxes of energy and angular momentum are a key strong-field effect in the dynamics of black holes, encoding direct information about their nature. In this work, we present a numerical study of these fluxes for a test particle…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-01 Rossella Gamba , Danilo Chiaramello , Estuti Shukla , Simone Albanesi

The silhouette of a black hole having a critical curve (an unstable bound photon orbit) when illuminated by an optically thin accretion disk whose emission is confined to the equatorial plane shows a distinctive central brightness…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-11 Merce Guerrero , Gonzalo J. Olmo , Diego Rubiera-Garcia , Diego Sáez-Chillón Gómez

We are motivated by the recently reported dynamical evidence of stars with short orbital periods moving around the center of the Milky Way and the corresponding hypothesis about the existence of a supermassive black hole hosted at its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-26 Alfredo Herrera-Aguilar , Ulises Nucamendi

We analytically compute the observational appearance of an isotropically emitting point source on a circular, equatorial orbit near the horizon of a rapidly spinning black hole. The primary image moves on a vertical line segment, in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-04 Samuel E. Gralla , Alexandru Lupsasca , Andrew Strominger

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

Circular photon orbit and black hole shadow are significantly important issues in physics and astronomy, and a number of breakthroughs have been witnessed in recent years. Conventionally, the stable and unstable circular photon orbits are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-12 Chen-Kai Qiao , Ming Li

The center-of-mass energy of two particles colliding near the horizon of a maximally rotating black hole can be arbitrarily high if the angular momentum of either of the incident particles is fine-tuned, which we call a critical particle.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 Tomohiro Harada , Hiroya Nemoto , Umpei Miyamoto

In the presence of a rotating Kerr black hole, we investigate hydrodynamics of the massive particles and massless photons, to construct relations among number density, pressure and internal energy density of the massive particles and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-28 Soon-Tae Hong

An study of the equatorial circular motion of photons and massive particles around a rotating compact body like a neutron star is presented. For this goal, we use an approximate Kerr-like metric with mass quadrupole as perturbation. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-01 Diego Solano-Alfaro , Francisco Frutos-Alfaro

We study the motion of bound null geodesics with fixed coordinate radius around a five-dimensional rotating black hole. These spherical photon orbits are not confined to a plane, and can exhibit interesting quasiperiodic behaviour. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-14 Mark Bugden

The images of supermassive black holes surrounded by optically-thin, radiatively-inefficient accretion flows, like those observed with the Event Horizon Telescope, are characterized by a bright ring of emission surrounding the black-hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-01 Ziri Younsi , Dimitrios Psaltis , Feryal Özel

We examine the red-shift emission from special orbits (horizons replicas) where photons have the same angular velocity, in magnitude, as those of the Kerr black hole (BH) Killing horizons. We focus on two particular contexts of special…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-11 D. Pugliese , Z. Stuchlik

An accurate closed-form expression is provided to predict the bending angle of light as a function of impact parameter for equatorial orbits around Kerr black holes of arbitrary spin. This expression is constructed by assuring that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-29 Nathaniel S. Barlow , Steven J. Weinstein , Joshua A. Faber

We consider thin accretion disks in the field of a class of rotating regular black holes. For this purpose, we obtain the radius of the innermost stable circular orbit, $r_{ISCO}$ and efficiency of accretion disk in converting matter into…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-28 Kuantay Boshkayev , Talgar Konysbayev , Yergali Kurmanov , Orlando Luongo , Marco Muccino , Aliya Taukenova , Ainur Urazalina

The geodesics of massless particles produced in collisions near a rotating black hole are solved numerically and a Monte Carlo integration of the momentum distribution of the massless particles is performed to calculate the fraction that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-18 Andrew J. Williams

We first study the escape probability of the spinning particle emitted from the Kerr black hole and find that the escape probability increases with the spin of the particle around the extreme Kerr black hole; in contrast, the escape…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-14 Ming Zhang , Jie Jiang

Here we provide shadow images of a Kerr-like black hole (BH) in cold dark matter (CDM) halo illuminated with a celestial light source and a thin accretion disk. The impact of spin parameter, critical density and the scale radius on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-13 Xiao-Xiong Zeng , Chen-Yu Yang , M. Israr Aslam , Rabia Saleem , Sadia Aslam

In the presence of a black hole, light sources connect to observers along multiple paths. As a result, observed brightness fluctuations must be correlated across different times and positions in black hole images. Photons that execute…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-21 Shahar Hadar , Michael D. Johnson , Alexandru Lupsasca , George N. Wong