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We construct the relativistic standard steady, optically thick, cold and geometrically thin accretion disk around a distorted Schwarzschild black hole. The distortion of this static and axially symmetric black hole solution, is connected to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-14 Shokoufe Faraji , Eva Hackmann

We study here images of thin accretion disks around black holes and two classes of naked singularity spacetimes and compare these scenarios. The naked singularity models which have photon spheres have single accretion disk with its inner…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-14 Rajibul Shaikh , Pankaj S. Joshi

The possible existence of naked singularities, hypothetical astrophysical objects, characterized by a gravitational singularity without an event horizon is still an open problem in present day astrophysics. From an observational point of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-18 Shahab Shahidi , Tiberiu Harko , Zoltán Kovács

We show that, in principle, a slowly evolving gravitationally collapsing perfect fluid cloud can asymptotically settle to a static spherically symmetric equilibrium configuration with a naked singularity at the center. We consider one such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-15 Pankaj S. Joshi , Daniele Malafarina , Ramesh Narayan

Naked singularities are hypothetical astrophysical objects, characterized by a gravitational singularity without an event horizon. Penrose has proposed a conjecture, according to which there exists a cosmic censor who forbids the occurrence…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-01-17 Z. Kovacs , T. Harko

We investigate the standard relativistic geometrically thin and optically thick accretion disk in the background of a deformed compact object. The main purpose of this work is to determine whether such a deformed object possesses its own…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-26 Shokoufe Faraji

Accretion disks, swirling structures of matter spiraling into black holes, play a pivotal role in our understanding of binary star systems and their intricate evolutionary processes. While current models often simplify these complex…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-26 Seyyed Masoud Hoseyni , Jamshid Ghanbari , Mahboobe Moeen Moghaddas

We investigate here the thermal properties of accretion disks in a spacetime for some galactic density profiles in spherical symmetry. The matter distributions have a finite outer radius with a naked central singularity. The luminosities of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-01 Jun-Qi Guo , Pankaj S. Joshi , Ramesh Narayan , Lin Zhang

For an accretion disk around a black hole, the strong relativistic effects affect every aspect of the radiation from the disk, including its spectrum, light-curve, and image. This work investigates in detail how the images of a thin disk…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Xiaoling Zhang , S. Nan Zhang , Yuxin Feng , Yangsen Yao

We study the optical appearance of a thin accretion disk around compact objects within the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity. Considering static spherically symmetric black holes and naked singularities we search for characteristic signatures…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-27 Galin Gyulchev , Petya Nedkova , Tsvetan Vetsov , Stoytcho Yazadjiev

Theoretical studies suggest that gravitational collapse can form either a black hole or a visible (naked) singularity. Identifying observational signatures that distinguish these two types of collapsed objects is a holy grail of physics.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-24 Vishva Patel , Sayantan Bhattacharya , Sudip Bhattacharyya , Pankaj S. Joshi

External matter distributions can substantially reshape the strong field environment of compact objects, yet this effect is usually neglected in idealized isolated models. In this work, we investigate geometrically thin, optically thick…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-15 Shokoufe Faraji , Ruijing Tang

We investigate the gravitational field of a static mass with quadrupole moment in empty space. It is shown that in general this configuration is characterized by the presence of curvature singularities without a surrounding event horizon.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-20 Hernando Quevedo

We study the optical appearance of a thin accretion disk around the strongly naked static Janis-Newman-Winicour singularity. The solution does not possess a photon sphere, which results in the formation of a complex structure of bright…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-02 Galin Gyulchev , Jutta Kunz , Petya Nedkova , Tsvetan Vetsov , Stoytcho Yazadjiev

In the present paper, we study the thermal properties of the geometrically thin accretion disks surrounding the null naked singularity (NNS) and the first type of Joshi-Malafarina-Narayan (JMN1) spacetimes and compare the results with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-31 Divya Tahelyani , Ashok B. Joshi , Dipanjan Dey , Pankaj S. Joshi

Surprisingly, the relict cosmological constant has a crucial influence on properties of accretion discs orbiting black holes in quasars and active galactic nuclei. We show it by considering basic properties of both the geometrically thin…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Z. Stuchlik

Motivated by the fact that the universe is dominated by dark matter and dark energy, we consider rotating black holes surrounded by perfect fluid dark matter and study the accretion process in thin disk around such black holes. Here, we are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-09 Malihe Heydari-Fard , Sara Ghassemi Honarvar , Mohaddese Heydari-Fard

The accretion disk around a black hole and its emissions play an essential role in theoretical analysis of the black hole image. In the literature, two analytical toy models of accretions are widely adopted: the spherical model and the thin…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-13 Zhi-Shuo Qu , Towe Wang , Chao-Jun Feng

Electromagnetic observations have been used over the past decades to understand the nature of black holes and the material around them. Our ability to learn about the fundamental physics relies on our understanding of two key ingredients in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-24 Alejandro Cardenas-Avendano , Jaxen Godfrey , Nicolas Yunes , Anne Lohfink

Fluid discs and tori around black holes are discussed within different approaches and with the emphasis on the role of disc gravity. First reviewed are the prospects of investigating the gravitational field of a black hole--disc system by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-19 V. Karas , J. -M. Hure , O. Semerak
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