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The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) image of M87* provides a direct test of strong-field gravity, measuring an angular shadow diameter $\theta_{d}=42\pm 3~\mu\mathrm{as}$ and a circularity deviation $\Delta C\leq 0.1$. Such observations allow…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-13 Kourosh Nozari , Milad Hajebrahimi , Sara Saghafi , G. Mustafa , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

We study the black hole's shadow for Schwarzschild - de Sitter and Kerr - de Sitter metrics with the contribution of the cosmological constant \Lambda. Based on the reported parameters of the M87* black hole shadow we obtain constraints for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-29 A. Stepanian , Sh. Khlghatyan , V. G. Gurzadyan

The groundbreaking image of the black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy has raised questions at the intersection of observational astronomy and black hole physics. How well can the radius of a black hole shadow can be measured, and can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-02 Adam Bauer , Alejandro Cárdenas-Avendaño , Charles F. Gammie , Nicolás Yunes

In this paper, the shadows cast by non-rotating and rotating modified gravity black holes are investigated. In addition to the black hole spin parameter $a$ and the inclination angle $\theta$ of observer, another parameter $\alpha$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-08 Hui-Min Wang , Yu-Meng Xu , Shao-Wen Wei

Recently there has been a surge of interest in regularizing, a $ D \to 4 $ limit of, the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) gravity, and the resulting regularized $4D$ EGB gravity has nontrivial dynamics. The theory admits spherically symmetric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-28 Rahul Kumar , 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

With the recent release of the black hole image of Sgr A* alongside the earlier image of M87*, one can now really hope to acquire a better understanding of the gravitational physics at the horizon scale. In this paper, we investigate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-05 Indrani Banerjee , Subhadip Sau , Soumitra SenGupta

Observations of black hole shadows with the Event Horizon Telescope have paved way for a novel approach to testing Einstein's theory of general relativity. Early analyses of the measured shadow put constraints on theory-agnostic parameters…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-04 Sourabh Nampalliwar , Saurabh K

We study the circular motion of massive and massless particles in a recently proposed quantum-corrected Schwarzschild black hole in loop quantum gravity. This solution is supposed to introduce small but non-zero quantum corrections in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-20 Reza Saadati , Fatimah Shojai

In this paper, we investigate the properties of black holes within the framework of multi-fractional theories of gravity, focusing on the effects of q-derivatives and weighted derivatives. These modifications, which introduce…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-03 Reggie C. Pantig

We investigate a rotating black hole embedded in a five-dimensional flat bulk by extending the Kerr metric through the Gurses-Gursey line element. Employing Boyer-Lindquist coordinates, we reinterpret the black hole as a charged-like object…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-10 Abraao J. S. Capistrano , Antonio C. Gutierrez-Pineres , Carlos H. Coimbra-Araujo

We derive causality constraints on the simplest scalar-tensor theories in which black holes differ from what General Relativity predicts, a scalar coupled to the Gauss-Bonnet or the Chern-Simons terms. Demanding that time advances are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-07 Francesco Serra , Javi Serra , Enrico Trincherini , Leonardo G. Trombetta

We investigate the astrophysical consequences of black holes in quadratic gravity, characterized by the parameters $S_0$, $S_2$, $m_0$ and $m_2$, in addition to the black hole mass $M$. To evaluate the physical validity of the fundamental…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-24 Somi Aktar , Niyaz Uddin Molla , Farook Rahaman , G. Mustafa

The 2017 Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observations of the central source in M87 have led to the first measurement of the size of a black-hole shadow. This observation offers a new and clean gravitational test of the black-hole metric in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-05 Dimitrios Psaltis , Lia Medeiros , Pierre Christian , Feryal Ozel , Kazunori Akiyama , Antxon Alberdi , Walter Alef , Keiichi Asada , Rebecca Azulay , David Ball , Mislav Balokovic , John Barrett , Dan Bintley , Lindy Blackburn , Wilfred Boland , Geoffrey C. Bower , Michael Bremer , Christiaan D. Brinkerink , Roger Brissenden , Silke Britzen , Dominique Broguiere , Thomas Bronzwaer , Do-Young Byun , John E. Carlstrom , Andrew Chael , Chi-kwan Chan , Shami Chatterjee , Koushik Chatterjee , Ming-Tang Chen , Yongjun Chen , Ilje Cho , John E. Conway , James M. Cordes , Geoffrey B. Crew , Yuzhu Cui , Jordy Davelaar , Mariafelicia De Laurentis , Roger Deane , Jessica Dempsey , Gregory Desvignes , Jason Dexter , Ralph P. Eatough , Heino Falcke , Vincent L. Fish , Ed Fomalont , Raquel Fraga-Encinas , Per Friberg , Christian M. Fromm , Charles F. Gammie , Roberto García , Olivier Gentaz , Ciriaco Goddi , Jose L. Gomez , Minfeng Gu , Mark Gurwell , Kazuhiro Hada , Ronald Hesper , Luis C. Ho , Paul Ho , Mareki Honma , Chih-Wei L. Huang , Lei Huang , David H. Hughes , Makoto Inoue , Sara Issaoun , David J. James , Buell T. Jannuzi , Michael Janssen , Wu Jiang , Alejandra Jimenez-Rosales , Michael D. Johnson , Svetlana Jorstad , Taehyun Jung , Mansour Karami , Ramesh Karuppusamy , Tomohisa Kawashima , Garrett K. Keating , Mark Kettenis , Jae-Young Kim , Junhan Kim , Jongsoo Kim , Motoki Kino , Jun Yi Koay , Patrick M. Koch , Shoko Koyama , Michael Kramer , Carsten Kramer , Thomas P. Krichbaum , Cheng-Yu Kuo , Tod R. Lauer , Sang-Sung Lee , Yan-Rong Li , Zhiyuan Li , Michael Lindqvist , Rocco Lico , Jun Liu , Kuo Liu , Elisabetta Liuzzo , Wen-Ping Lo , Andrei P. Lobanov , Colin Lonsdale , Ru-Sen Lu , Jirong Mao , Sera Markoff , Daniel P. Marrone , Alan P. Marscher , Ivan Martí-Vidal , Satoki Matsushita , Yosuke Mizuno , Izumi Mizuno , James M. Moran , Kotaro Moriyama , Monika Moscibrodzka , Cornelia Muller , Gibwa Musoke , Alejandro Mus Mejías , Hiroshi Nagai , Neil M. Nagar , Ramesh Narayan , Gopal Narayanan , Iniyan Natarajan , Roberto Neri , Aristeidis Noutsos , Hiroki Okino , Hector Olivares , Tomoaki Oyama , Daniel C. M. Palumbo , Jongho Park , Nimesh Patel , Ue-Li Pen , Vincent Pietu , Richard Plambeck , Aleksandar PopStefanija , Ben Prather , Jorge A. Preciado-Lopez , Venkatessh Ramakrishnan , Ramprasad Rao , Mark G. Rawlings , Alexander W. Raymond , Bart Ripperda , Freek Roelofs , Alan Rogers , Eduardo Ros , Mel Rose , Arash Roshanineshat , Helge Rottmann , Alan L. Roy , Chet Ruszczyk , Benjamin R. Ryan , Kazi L. J. Rygl , Salvador Sanchez , David Sanchez-Arguelles , Mahito Sasada , Tuomas Savolainen , F. Peter Schloerb , Karl-Friedrich Schuster , Lijing Shao , Zhiqiang Shen , Des Small , Bong Won Sohn , Jason SooHoo , Fumie Tazaki , Remo P. J. Tilanus , Michael Titus , Pablo Torne , Tyler Trent , Efthalia Traianou , Sascha Trippe , Ilse van Bemmel , Huib Jan van Langevelde , Daniel R. van Rossum , Jan Wagner , John Wardle , Derek Ward-Thompson , Jonathan Weintroub , Norbert Wex , Robert Wharton , Maciek Wielgus , George N. Wong , Qingwen Wu , Doosoo Yoon , Andre Young , Ken Young , Ziri Younsi , Feng Yuan , Ye-Fei Yuan , Shan-Shan Zhao , the EHT Collaboration

In this work we investigate a Schwarzschild-type black hole that is corrected by the Generalized Uncertainty Principle (GUP) and possesses topological defects within the framework of Bumblebee gravity. Our focus is on the thermodynamic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-16 Ronit Karmakar , Dhruba Jyoti Gogoi , Umananda Dev Goswami

In the framework of Randall -- Sundrum theory with extra dimension Reissner -- Nordstr\"om black hole solutions with a tidal charge have been found. The shadow around the supermassive black hole in M87 was reconstructed in 2019 based on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-11 Alexander F. Zakharov

In a recent Letter we have shown that in shift-symmetric Horndeski theory the scalar field is forced to obtain a nontrivial configuration in black hole spacetimes, unless a linear coupling with the Gauss-Bonnet invariant is tuned away. As a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-12 Thomas P. Sotiriou , Shuang-Yong Zhou

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

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

Recently, numerical solutions to the field equations of Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity that correspond to black-holes with non-trivial scalar hair have been reported. Here, we employ the method of the continued-fraction expansion in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-28 Roman A. Konoplya , Thomas Pappas , Alexander Zhidenko