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Theories of gravity extending or modifying general relativity typically allow for black hole solutions different from the Schwarzschild/Kerr geometries. Electromagnetic observations have been used to place constraints on parametrized…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-21 Sebastian H. Völkel , Enrico Barausse

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

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

Effective field theory methods suggest that some rather-general extensions of General Relativity include, or are mimicked by, certain higher-order curvature corrections, with coupling constants expected to be small but otherwise arbitrary.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-29 Vitor Cardoso , Masashi Kimura , Andrea Maselli , Leonardo Senatore

Motivated by recent developments in Lorentz-violating theories of gravity, we obtain new black hole solutions within the framework of bumblebee gravity, where the bumblebee vector field possesses two independent nonzero components and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-26 Jia-Zhou Liu , Shan-Ping Wu , Shao-Wen Wei , Yu-Xiao Liu

In this paper, we investigate the properties of null geodesics, thermodynamics, gravitational lensing, and black hole shadows in the vicinity of a static regular Frolov black hole. By analyzing the trajectories of null geodesics, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-26 Shubham Kala , Hemwati Nandan , Kush Maithani , Saswati Roy , Amare Abebe

We present calculations for the anticipated shadow sizes of Sgr A* and the supermassive black hole in the galaxy M87 in the context of the MOG modified theory of gravity (also known as Scalar-Tensor-Vector-Gravity, or STVG). We demonstrate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-23 J. W. Moffat , V. T. Toth

We study the shadow cast by the H$D$ Schwarzschild-Tangherlini black hole, and analytically calculate the influence of extra dimensions on the shadow of a black hole. A black hole casts a shadow as an optical appearance because of its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-07-25 Balendra Pratap Singh , Sushant G. Ghosh

In this paper, we investigate static spherically symmetric solutions in the context of Conformal Killing Gravity, a recently proposed modified theory of gravity that offers a new approach to the cosmological constant problem. Coupling this…

The direct imaging of black holes by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) enables strong-field tests of gravity. We study the cosmological evolution and the black-hole shadow radius in 4D Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) gravity coupled to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-12 Xiang-Qian Li , Hao-Peng Yan , Xiao-Jun Yue

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has imaged the shadow of the supermassive black hole in M87. A library of general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GMRHD) models was fit to the observational data, providing constraints on black hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-09 Freek Roelofs , Christian M. Fromm , Yosuke Mizuno , Jordy Davelaar , Michael Janssen , Ziri Younsi , Luciano Rezzolla , Heino Falcke

We investigate the shadow cast by a regular black hole in scalar-tensor-vector mOdified gravity theory. This black hole differs from a Schwarzschild-Kerr black hole by the dimensionless parameter $\beta$. The size of the shadow depends on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-09 Subhadip Sau , John W. Moffat

Recent shadow images of Sgr A and M87 captured by Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration confirms the existence of black holes or their possible alternatives in the center of galaxies. On the other hand, the new image of Sgr A in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-16 Fateme Aliyan , Kourosh Nozari

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

In this work we study static black holes in the regularized 4D Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet theory of gravity; a shift-symmetric scalar-tensor theory that belongs to the Horndeski class. This theory features a simple black hole solution that can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-18 Pedro G. S. Fernandes , Pedro Carrilho , Timothy Clifton , David J. Mulryne

We consider a static black hole immersed in the Power-Yang-Mills field in four dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity and investigate the effect of various parameters on the radius of the photon sphere. The modified form of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-29 M. Zubair , Muhammad Ali Raza , Furkat Sarikulov , Javlon Rayimbaev

Black hole solutions are explored in the Lorentz gauge theory of gravity. The fields of the theory are the gauge potential in the adjoint and a scalar in the fundamental representation of the Lorentz group, a metric tensor then emerging as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-06 Tomi S. Koivisto , Luxi Zheng

We discuss the emergence of black hole shadow and photon-sphere in the context of $f(R)$ gravity. It is shown that the shadow is exponentially sensitive to linear instabilities of metric coming from some $f(R)$ solutions. Thus, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-28 Andrea Addazi , Salvatore Capozziello , Sergei D. Odintsov

Motivated by recent Event Horizon Telescope findings, we investigate constrained optics of rotating black holes in Einstein-Maxwell-scalar gravity theory. Precisely, we mainly study the parameter effects on two relevant optical concepts…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-19 Hajar Belmahi

Gauss-Bonnet gravity provides one of the most promising frameworks to study curvature corrections to the Einstein action in supersymmetric string theories, while avoiding ghosts and keeping second order field equations. Although…

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