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This paper investigates the optical appearance of a Schwarzschild-like black hole (BH) surrounded by a Dehnen-(1, 4, 5/2) type dark matter (DM) halo, with a focus on how the DM halo's density $\rho_{s}$ and radius $r_{s}$ influence the BH's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-17 Zuting Luo , Meirong Tang , Zhaoyi Xu

This article delves into the observational properties of a Schwarzschild-like black hole (BH). Initially, the research provides a succinct examination of the spacetime geometry and the configuration of its horizon. Furthermore, we study the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-17 Weiqiang Yang , Mirzabek Alloqulov , Ahmadjon Abdujabbarov , Bobomurat Ahmedov , Chengxun Yuan , Chen Zhou

The horizon-scale images of supermassive black holes (BHs) by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration (EHT) have provided new opportunities to test general relativity and other theories of gravity. In view of future projects, such as the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-12 Akhil Uniyal , Indu K. Dihingia , Yosuke Mizuno , Luciano Rezzolla

Astrophysical black holes (BHs) are universally expected to be described by the Kerr metric, a stationary, vacuum solution of general relativity (GR). Indeed, by imaging M87$^\star$ and Sgr A$^\star$ and measuring the size of their shadows,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-07 Prashant Kocherlakota , Luciano Rezzolla , Rittick Roy , Maciek Wielgus

The relation between the black hole shadow and the black hole thermodynamics is investigated. We find that the phase structure can be reflected by the shadow radius for the spherically symmetric black hole. We also find that the shadow size…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-28 Ming Zhang , Minyong Guo

In this paper, we employ a ray-tracing algorithm to simulate the shadows of three equal-mass black holes in static equilibrium across a wide parameter space. We find that the shadows consist of a larger primary shadow and several distorted,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-19 Dan Li , Yuxiang Zuo , Shiyang Hu , Chen Deng , Yu Wang , Wenfu Cao

We examine the behavior of non-commutative Schwarzschild black holes in the context of massive gravity. According to the investigation, corresponding to a minimal mass, the black hole can have two horizons, one horizon, or no horizon at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-17 Piyali Bhar , Dhruba Jyoti Gogoi , Supakchai Ponglertsakul

We present a comprehensive theoretical investigation of a novel black hole (BH) spacetime: a Schwarzschild BH embedded in a Hernquist-type dark matter halo (HDMH) and surrounded by a cloud of cosmic strings (CSs) -- collectively termed the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-24 Faizuddin Ahmed , Ahmad Al-Badawi , İzzet Sakallı

In this paper, we study the shadow cast by two types of charged and slowly rotating black holes in Eisntein-aether theory of gravity. This two types of black holes are corresponding to two specific combinations of the coupling constants of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-04 Tao Zhu , Qiang Wu , Mubasher Jamil , Kimet Jusufi

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

We investigate the shadow cast by a sort of new regular black holes which are characterized by an asymptotically Minkowski core and the Sub-Planckian curvature. Firstly, we extend the metric with spherical symmetry to the one of rotating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-17 Yi Ling , Meng-He Wu

The nature of black holes (BHs) and their potential deviations from classical General Relativity (GR) remain central questions in modern astrophysics. Nonlinear electrodynamics (NED) offers a promising mechanism to construct regular BHs…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-19 Javokhir Sharipov , Mirzabek Alloqulov , Pankaj Sheoran , Sanjar Shaymatov

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are widely considered as candidates for dark matter in many recent studies, and they are often modeled as Schwarzschild or Kerr black holes (BHs), which have curvature singularities. Nevertheless, resolving the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-02 Li-Shuai Wang , Xiangdong Zhang

We consider a simple spherical model consisting of a Schwarzschild black hole of mass $M$ and a dark matter of mass $\Delta M$ around it. The general formula for the radius of black-hole shadow has been derived in this case. It is shown…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-06-05 R. A. Konoplya

For an observer, the Black Hole (BH) shadow is the BH's apparent image in the sky due to the gravitational lensing of nearby radiation, emitted by an external source. A recent class of solutions dubbed Kerr BHs with scalar hair possess…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-17 Pedro V. P. Cunha , Carlos A. R. Herdeiro , Eugen Radu , Helgi F. Runarsson

A distinct visual signature occurs in black holes that are surrounded by optically thin and geometrically thick emission regions. This signature is a sharp-edged dip in brightness that is coincident with the black-hole shadow, which is the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-03 Thomas Bronzwaer , Heino Falcke

It is now known that, apart from black holes, some naked singularities can also cast shadows which provide their possible observable signatures. We examine the relevant question here as to how to distinguish then these entities from each…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-02 Dipanjan Dey , Rajibul Shaikh , Pankaj S. Joshi

It is now known that the shadow is not only the property of a black hole, it can also be cast by other compact objects like naked singularities. However, there exist some novel features of the shadow of the naked singularities which are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-14 Parth Bambhaniya , Dipanjan Dey , Ashok B. Joshi , Pankaj S. Joshi , Divyesh N. Solanki , Aadarsh Mehta

We study the equivalence principle, regarded as the cornerstone of general relativity, by analyzing the deformation observable of black hole shadows. Such deformation can arise from new physics and may be expressed as a phenomenological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-22 Chunlong Li , Sheng-Feng Yan , Lingqin Xue , Xin Ren , Yi-Fu Cai , Damien A. Easson , Ye-Fei Yuan , Hongsheng Zhao

We describe some properties of the hyperbolically symmetric black hole (hereafter referred to as the $HSBH$) proposed a few years ago. We start by explaining the main motivation behind such an idea, and we determine the main differences…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-04 L. Herrera , L. Witten