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We investigate what are the key physical features that cause the development of a naked singularity, rather than a black hole, as the end-state of spherical gravitational collapse. We show that sufficiently strong shearing effects near the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Pankaj S. Joshi , Naresh Dadhich , Roy Maartens

In a recent work on rotating black hole shadows [Phys. Rev. D{\bf 101}, 084029 (2020)], we proposed a new approach for calculating size and shape of the shadows in terms of astrometrical observables with respect to finite-distance…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-11 Zhe Chang , Qing-Hua Zhu

We have studied the shadows of a circular disformal Kerr black hole with a deformation parameter, which represents a rotating solution within a generalized scalar-tensor framework of Horndeski gravity that characterized by second-order…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-06 Fen Long , Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing

Metrics representing black holes in General Relativity may exhibit naked singularities for certain values of their parameters. This is the case for super-extremal ($J^2 > M>0$) Kerr and super-extremal ($|Q|>M>0$) Reissner-N\"ordstrom…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-04-24 Gustavo Dotti , Reinaldo J. Gleiser , Jorge Pullin , Ignacio F. Ranea-Sandoval , Héctor Vucetich

Investigations of shadows of astrophysical entities constitute a major source of insight into the evolution of compact objects. Such effects depend on the nature of the compact object and arise on account of the strong gravitational lensing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-21 Muhammed Amir , Kimet Jusufi , Ayan Banerjee , Sudan Hansraj

Direct imaging of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at event horizon scale resolutions, as recently done by the Event Horizon Telescope, allows for testing alternative models to SMBHs such as Kerr naked singularities (KNSs). We demonstrate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-28 Bao Nguyen , Pierre Christian , Chi-kwan Chan

In this paper, we investigate the light trajectories and shadow properties in the rotating version of null naked singularity (NNS) spacetime which is derived using the Newman- Janis algorithm without complexification method. We discuss some…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-21 Vishva Patel , Divya Tahelyani , Ashok B. Joshi , Dipanjan Dey , Pankaj S. Joshi

We study here the precession of the spin of a test gyroscope attached to a stationary observer in the Kerr spacetime, specifically, to distinguish naked singularity (NS) from black hole (BH). It was shown recently that for gyros attached to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-14 Chandrachur Chakraborty , Prashant Kocherlakota , Mandar Patil , Sudip Bhattacharyya , Pankaj S. Joshi , Andrzej Królak

In this work, we investigate the shadow properties of the Kerr-Newman-Anti-de Sitter black hole coupled to a nonlinear electrodynamics. We construct the shadow by employing the celestial coordinate approach for observers located at finite…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-20 Mohsen Fathi

We explore the shadow of certain class generalized Kerr black holes, which are non vacuum solutions of the Einstein equations with exotic matter. The images depend on the angular momentum of the compact object, the characteristic parameter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-23 Vassil K. Tinchev

We investigate the shadow cast by a rotating braneworld black hole, in the Randall-Sundrum scenario. In addition to the angular momentum, the tidal charge term deforms the shape of the shadow. For a given value of the rotation parameter,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-03-19 Leonardo Amarilla , Ernesto F. Eiroa

Various studies show that the gravitational collapse of inhomogeneous matter clouds leads to naked singularity formation. We investigate here the spin precession frequency of a test gyroscope attached to a stationary observer in a rotating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-19 Tehreem Zahra , Mubasher Jamil , Mustapha Azreg-Aïnou

The black hole shadow, first observed by the Event Horizon Telescope in 2017, is the newest method for studying black holes and understanding gravity. Much work has gone into understanding the shadow of a Kerr black hole, including all of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-25 Dimitry Ayzenberg

We study the spin precession of a test gyroscope attached to a stationary observer in Kerr-Newman spacetime to distinguish a naked singularity from a black hole. Extending earlier work on Kerr, we examine how the electric charge \(Q\)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-24 Arindam Kumar Chatterjee , Parthapratim Pradhan

We construct shadows of superspinars described by the revisited Kerr-de Sitter (rKdS) naked singularity (NS) spacetimes and compare them with those of the standard KdSNS spacetimes. For all the classes of the rKdSNS spacetimes we determine…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-29 Daniel Charbulák , Zdeněk Stuchlík

Repulsive gravity is a well known characteristic of naked singularities. In this work, we explore light surfaces and find new effects of repulsive gravity. We compare Kerr naked singularities with the corresponding black hole counterparts…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-23 Daniela Pugliese , Hernando Quevedo

How to describe a black hole embedded in an expanding universe is an important topic. Some models about this issue are suggested by assuming that the metric is a conformal transformation of the Schwarzschild metric or of the isotropic black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-03-18 Cheng-Yi Sun

This doctoral thesis is organized into seven chapters. The first chapter introduces readers to the formation of black holes and naked singularities as an end state of continuous gravitational collapse. The physical and geometrical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-04 Parth Bambhaniya

We analyze the redshift suffered by photons originating from an external source, traversing a collapsing dust cloud and finally being received by an asymptotic observer. In addition, we study the shadow that the collapsing cloud casts on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-10 Néstor Ortiz , Olivier Sarbach , Thomas Zannias

Naked singularities are hypothetical astrophysical entities featuring gravitational singularities without event horizons. In this study, we analyze the shadow properties of Kerr Modified Gravity (Kerr MOG) naked singularities (KMNSs). We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-25 Saira Yasmin , Mubasher Jamil