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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

The Event Horizon Telescope, a global submillimeter wavelength very long baseline interferometry array, produced the first image of supermassive black hole M87* showing a ring of diameter $\theta_d= 42\pm 3\,\mu$as, inferred a black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-18 Rahul Kumar , Amit Kumar , Sushant G. Ghosh

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration has recently released the first image of a black hole (BH), opening a new window onto tests of general relativity in the strong field regime. In this paper, we derive constraints on the nature…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-24 Cosimo Bambi , Katherine Freese , Sunny Vagnozzi , Luca Visinelli

The recently obtained hairy Kerr black holes, due to additional sources or surrounding fluid, like dark matter, with conserved energy-momentum tensor, have a deviation $\alpha$ and primary hair $l_0$, apart from rotation parameter $a$ and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-01 Misba Afrin , Rahul Kumar , Sushant G. Ghosh

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration unveiled event-horizon-scale images of the supermassive black holes (SMBHs) M87* and Sgr A*, revealing a dark brightness depression, namely the black hole shadow, whose shape and size may…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-27 Misba Afrin , Sushant G. Ghosh

We consider a black hole mimicker given by an exact solution of the stationary and axially symmetric field equations in vacuum known as the $\delta$-Kerr metric. We study its optical properties based on a ray-tracing code for photon motion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-25 Song Li , Temurbek Mirzaev , Ahmadjon A. Abdujabbarov , Daniele Malafarina , Bobomurat Ahmedov , Wen-Biao Han

The recent time witnessed a surge of interest in strong gravitational lensing by black holes is due to the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) results, which suggest comparing the black hole lensing in both general relativity and heterotic string…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-25 Sushant G. Ghosh , Rahul Kumar , Shafqat Ul Islam

The unprecedented image of the M87* supermassive black hole has sparked some controversy over its usefulness as a test of the general relativistic Kerr metric. The criticism is mainly related to the black hole's quasi-circular shadow and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-22 Kostas Glampedakis , George Pappas

Context. The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration recently obtained first images of the surroundings of the supermassive compact object M87* at the center of the galaxy M87. Aims. We want to develop a simple analytic disk model for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-03 F. H. Vincent , M. Wielgus , M. A. Abramowicz , E. Gourgoulhon , J. -P. Lasota , T. Paumard , G. Perrin

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has guided strong-field gravitational physics by providing the first direct images of the supermassive black holes M87* and Sagittarius A*. The EHT observations offer unprecedented opportunities to test…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-16 Towheed Ahmad Nengroo , Shafqat Ul Islam , Sushant G. Ghosh

Inspired by the observations of supermassive black hole M87* in \emph{Event Horizon Telescope }(EHT) experiment, a remarkable surge in black hole physics is to use the black hole shadow's observables to distinguish general relativity (GR)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-20 Yuan Meng , Xiao-Mei Kuang , Zi-Yu Tang

The M87* black hole shadow observation by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has enabled us to test the modified gravity theories in the extreme-field regime and estimating the black hole parameters. Having this assertion, we investigate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-06 Sushant G. Ghosh , Rahul Kumar Walia

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration recently unveiled the first image of the supermassive black hole M87*, which exhibited a ring of angular diameter $\theta_{d}=42 \pm 3 \mu as$, a circularity deviation $\Delta C \leq 0.1$, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-17 Misba Afrin , Sushant G. Ghosh

Combined with the observation of M87*, shadow has gradually became a promising test of the black hole nature. Recently, EHT collaboration gave new constraints on the shadow size at 68\% confidence levels. In this work, we consider the new…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-06 Shao-Wen Wei , Yuan-Chuan Zou

When surrounded by a transparent emission region, black holes are expected to reveal a dark shadow caused by gravitational light bending and photon capture at the event horizon. To image and study this phenomenon, we have assembled the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-08 The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

Thanks to the release of the extraordinary EHT image of shadow attributed to the M87* supermassive black hole (SMBH), we have a novel window to assess the validity of fundamental physics in the strong-field regime. Motivated by this, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-22 Mohsen Khodadi , Gaetano Lambiase , David F. Mota

When the the shadow image of a supermassive black hole in the center of M87 was obtained a new era in the observational astrophysics began. The resolution improvement would allow to test extended gravity models at event horizon scales. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-26 S. O. Alexeyev , V. A. Prokopov

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) recently released an image of the supermassive black hole Sgr A* showing an angular shadow diameter $d_{sh}= 48.7 \pm 7\,\mu$as and Schwarzschild shadow deviation $\delta =…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-28 Sushant G. Ghosh , Misba Afrin

In this paper, we study the influence of the parameters for the accelerating Kerr-Newman black hole on the shadows and the constraints, extensively. We find that the rotating parameter $a$, the charge parameter $e$, and the inclination…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-21 Tao-Tao Sui , Qi-Ming Fu , Wen-Di Guo

The scarcity of quantum gravity (QG) inspired rotating black holes limits the progress of testing QG through Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observations. The EHT imaged the supermassive black holes, Sgr A* and M87*, revealing an angular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-30 Heena Ali , Shafqat Ul Islam , Sushant G. Ghosh
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