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We present the results of our studies on accretion disks in the proximity of astrophysical black holes. These disks can be of varying degrees of opacity, geometrical shapes, sizes, and volumes. The central compact object is a Schwarzschild…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-27 Leela Elpida Koutsantoniou

We consider the optical appearance of a non-singular, spherically symmetric black hole from Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld gravity coupled to anisotropic fluids. Such a black hole has a single (external) horizon located very near the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-01 David Díaz-Guerra , Angel Rincon , Diego Rubiera-Garcia

In this paper, we investigate the Einstein-Hayward gravity coupled to a complex scalar field without self-interaction. Using numerical methods, we construct a class of Hayward boson star solutions and examine their fundamental properties as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-28 Zhen-Hua Zhao , Yi-Ning Gu , Shu-Cong Liu , Zi-Qian Liu , Yong-Qiang Wang

Black holes are the most compact objects in the Universe. According to general relativity, black holes have a horizon that hides a singularity where Einstein's theory breaks down. Recently, gravitational waves opened the possibility to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-01 Elisa Maggio

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

Recently a novel four-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (4EGB) theory of gravity was proposed by Glavan and Lin [D. Glavan and C. Lin, Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 081301 (2020)] which includes a regularized Gauss-Bonnet term by using the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-01 Cheng Liu , Tao Zhu , Qiang Wu

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

One crucial problem in relativistic astrophysics is that of the nature of black hole candidates. It is usually assumed that astrophysical black holes are described by the Schwarzschild or Kerr space-times; however, there is no direct…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-05 J. A. Arrieta-Villamizar , J. M. Velásquez-Cadavid , O. M. Pimentel , F. D. Lora-Clavijo , A. C. Gutiérrez-Piñeres

We model massive compact objects in galactic nuclei as stationary, axially-symmetric naked singularities in the Einstein-massless scalar field theory and study the resulting gravitational lensing. In the weak deflection limit we study…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-18 Galin N. Gyulchev , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

In this paper we show that electrically charged black holes in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity suffer from a superradiant instability. It is triggered by a charged scalar field that fulfills Dirichlet boundary conditions at a mirror located…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-12 Octavio Fierro , Nicolas Grandi , Julio Oliva

Einstein-dilaton-Gauss-Bonnet gravity is a theoretically well-motivated alternative theory of gravity emerging as a low-energy 4-dimensional model from heterotic string theory. Its rotating black hole solutions are known numerically and can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-01 Hao Zhang , Menglei Zhou , Cosimo Bambi , Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz , Eugen Radu

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) imaging of the supermassive black holes at the centers of Messier 87 galaxy and the Milky Way galaxy marks a significant step in observing the photon rings and central brightness depression that define the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-14 Soroush Zare , Luis M. Nieto , Xing-Hui Feng , Shi-Hai Dong , Hassan Hassanabadi

We study the linear polarization from the accretion disk around weakly and strongly naked Janis-Newman-Winicour singularities. We consider an analytical toy model of thin magnetized fluid ring orbiting in the equatorial plane and emitting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-28 Valentin Deliyski , Galin Gyulchev , Petya Nedkova , Stoytcho Yazadjiev

The images of supermassive black holes surrounded by optically-thin, radiatively-inefficient accretion flows, like those observed with the Event Horizon Telescope, are characterized by a bright ring of emission surrounding the black-hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-01 Ziri Younsi , Dimitrios Psaltis , Feryal Özel

We investigate the observational features of exact vacuum solutions in Brans-Dicke (BD) gravity, focusing on their implications for black hole shadow imaging. Motivated by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observations, we revisit a class…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-17 Prajwal Hassan Puttasiddappa , Davi C Rodrigues , David F Mota

Non-singular horizonless ultracompact objects provide a simple resolution to the black holes singularity problem. It has been shown that, if these objects are compact enough to exhibit the presence of the light-ring required to mimic the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-22 Francesco Di Filippo

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

The observable characteristics of the charged black hole (BH) surrounded by a thin disk accretion are investigated in the Rastall gravity. We found that the radii of the direct emission, lensing ring, and photon ring dramatically increased…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-22 Sen Guo , Guan-Ru Li , En-Wei Liang

We study low-mass binary X-ray sources involving stellar mass black holes within massive gravity. Regarding the accretion disk, we adopt the standard model for an optically thick, cool, and geometrically thin disk by Shakura-Sunyaev. For…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-04 Grigoris Panotopoulos , Angel Rincon , Ilídio Lopes

In astrophysics, accretion is the process by which a massive object acquires matter. The infall leads to the extraction of gravitational energy. Accretion onto dark compact objects such as black holes, neutron stars, and white dwarfs is a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-19 Kourosh Nozari , Sara Saghafi , Mohammad Hassani