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We study the gravitational lensing effects of a static, asymptotically flat black hole with primary scalar hair in Beyond Horndeski gravity, focusing on the strong lensing regime. Recently, in Ref. [1], we placed constraints on the scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-09 Mohsen Fathi

In this paper, by exploring the photon motion in the region near the Bardeen black hole, the shadow and observation properties of the black hole surrounded by various accretion models are studied. We analyzed the changes in shadow imaging…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-17 Ke-Jian He , Sen Guo , Shuang-Cheng Tan , Guo-Ping Li

We find an exact black hole solution with a minimally coupled scalar field. The corresponding spacetime has two horizons and one of the them is the black hole event horizon and the other is the cosmic horizon. In this sense, the solution is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-13 Shuang Yu , Changjun Gao

We have studied photon motion around axially symmetric rotating Kerr black hole in the presence of plasma with radial power-law density. It is shown that in the presence of plasma the observed shape and size of shadow changes depending on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-21 Farruh Atamurotov , Bobomurat Ahmedov , Ahmadjon Abdujabbarov

We investigate the properties of the shadow cast by a black hole (BH) in a non-commutative spacetime surrounded by a plasma medium. BHs in a plasma environment can exhibit complex interactions that profoundly affect their shadow properties.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-01 Mrinnoy M. Gohain , Kalyan Bhuyan , Paragjyoti Chutia

Black holes are among the most compelling predictions of general relativity (GR) and are now strongly supported by observations from gravitational-wave detectors and the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). While standard black hole solutions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-13 A. Errehymy , Y. Khedif , M. Daoud , Y. Myrzakulov , O. Donmez , B. Turimov

Black holes (BH) are objects described by General Relativity (GR), particularly by the Kerr solution. However, this solution is based on simplifying assumptions. To achieve a more realistic approach, we investigate the impact of deviations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-22 F. Agurto-Sepulveda , J. H Lagunas , J. Pedreros , B. Bandyopadhyay , D. R. G Schleicher

Wormholes are hypothetical objects which can be black hole mimickers with strong gravitational fields. Recently, Wielgus et al. have constructed reflection-asymmetric thin-shell wormholes which are composed of the parts of a Schwarzschild…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-24 Naoki Tsukamoto

Black holes in General Relativity are described by space-time metrics that are simpler in comparison to non-vacuum compact objects. However, given the universality of the gravitational pull, it is expected that dark matter accumulates…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-23 Caio F. B. Macedo , João Luís Rosa , Diego Rubiera-Garcia

We consider the black hole (BH) shadow images which can be restored by data processing and image recovery procedures in future space Very Large Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) missions. For Kerr BHs with masses and coordinates of SgrA*, M87*…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-26 E. V. Mikheeva , S. V. Repin , V. N. Lukash

Inspired by the two different dark matter frameworks that were studied recently: one that arises from the non-local effects of entanglement entropy as emergent gravity (characterized by the parameter $\xi(M)$, and zero-point scale length…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-11 Reggie C. Pantig

We investigate the shadow of an exact black hole solution of Einstein's equations recently proposed by Cardoso et al., to describe a supermassive black hole immersed in a dark matter halo. We analyze and discuss the light rings and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-03 Sérgio V. M. C. B. Xavier , Haroldo C. D. Lima Junior , Luís C. B. Crispino

The image of a black hole (BH) consists of direct and secondary images that depend on the observer position. We investigate the optical appearance of a Schwarzschild BH in the context of a string cloud to reveal how the BH's observable…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-02 Sen Guo , Yu-Xiang Huang , Guo-Ping Li

The Frolov black hole (BH) is a charged extension of the Hayward BH, having regularity at the central point $r = 0$ and an asymptotically Schwarzschild form for large values of $r$. Such a BH is parameterized by a length scale parameter, \(…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-01 Mrinnoy M. Gohain , Kalyan Bhuyan , Rajnandini Borgohain , Tonmoyee Gogoi , Kakoli Bhuyan , Prabwal Phukon

We investigate the strong gravitational lensing phenomena caused by a black hole with a dark matter halo. In this study, we examine strong gravitational lensing with two significant dark matter models: the universal rotation curve model and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-03 Niyaz Uddin Molla , Himanshu Chaudhary , Dhruv Arora , Farruh Atamurotov , Ujjal Debnath , G. Mustafa

We investigated the shadows and optical appearances of a new type of regular black holes (BHs) with a Minkowski core under various spherical accretion scenarios. These BHs are constructed by modifying the Newtonian potential based on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-08 Yi Xiong , Jin Pu , Yi Ling , Guo-Ping Li , Gao-Ming Deng

Classically, the black hole (BH) horizon is a rigid surface of infinite redshift; whereas the uncertainty principle dictates that the semiclassical (would-be) horizon cannot be fixed in space nor can it exhibit any divergences. We propose…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Ram Brustein , A. J. M. Medved

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

In this work, we derive novel exact solutions describing Schwarzschild-like black holes (BHs) embedded in a Dehnen-type dark matter (DM) halo density profile and investigate their geometric, dynamical, and observational signatures arising…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-30 Azalbek Boltaev , Tursunali Xamidov , Sanjar Shaymatov

For dark compact objects such as black holes or wormholes, the shadow size has long been thought to be determined by the unstable photon sphere (region). However, by considering the asymmetric thin-shell wormhole (ATSW) model, we find that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-23 Xiaobao Wang , Peng-Cheng Li , Cheng-Yong Zhang , Minyong Guo