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The accretion flow in the disk dominated state of black hole binaries has peak temperature and luminosity which vary together in such a way as to indicate an approximately constant emitting area. The association of this with the last stable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Chris Done , Shane W. Davis

We review the physical origins for possible visible images of the supermassive black hole M87* in the galaxy M87 and SgrA* in the Milky Way Galaxy. The classical dark black hole shadow of the maximal size is visible in the case of luminous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-28 V. I. Dokuchaev , N. O. Nazarova

The observational appearance of a black hole is critically dependent on the surrounding accreting matter, in particular on the central brightness depression and photon ring structure. We perform a systematic comparative analysis of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-21 Yuxuan Shi , Hongbo Cheng

We analyze the redshift suffered by photons originating from an external source, traversing a collapsing dust cloud and finally being received by an asymptotic observer. In addition, we study the shadow that the collapsing cloud casts on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-10 Néstor Ortiz , Olivier Sarbach , Thomas Zannias

In this paper, we first consider null geodesics of a class of charged, spherical and asymptotically flat hairy black holes in an Einstein-Maxwell-scalar theory with a non-minimal coupling for the scalar and electromagnetic fields.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-07 Qingyu Gan , Peng Wang , Houwen Wu , Haitang Yang

The inferred black hole in the Galactic center spans the largest angle on the sky among all known black holes. Forthcoming observational programs plan to localize or potentially resolve the image of Sgr A* to an exquisite precision,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Avery E. Broderick , Abraham Loeb

The transonic phenomenon of black hole accretion and the existence of the photon sphere are the characteristics of strong gravitational fields near a black hole horizon. In this work, we study spherical accretion flow onto a general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-01 Sen Yang , Cheng Liu , Tao Zhu , Li Zhao , Qiang Wu , Ke Yang , Mubasher Jamil

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 article, we present the thermodynamic and shadow properties of rotating black holes with global monopole charge. The angular diameter of Sgr A$^{*}$ black hole is 48.7 $\pm$ 7 $\mu as$, which is 8 $kps$ far away having a mass of $M…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-04 Balendra Pratap Singh , Md Sabir Ali

The rotating black holes in the quintessential dark energy correspond to three horizons: inner, outer, and quintessential horizon. The domain of outer communication is the region between outer and quintessential horizon. Here, in this work…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-04 Balendra Pratap Singh

Studies of black hole superradiance often focus on the growth of a cloud in isolation, accompanied by the spin-down of the black hole. In this paper, we consider the additional effect of the accretion of matter and angular momentum from the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-26 Lam Hui , Y. T. Albert Law , Luca Santoni , Guanhao Sun , Giovanni Maria Tomaselli , Enrico Trincherini

Recently, the temporal evolution of the angles characterizing the spatial configuration of the jet in the supermassive black hole M87$^\ast$ was measured exhibiting a precessional pattern around the hole's spin axis. It would be due to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-11 Lorenzo Iorio

The projection effect of an anisotropic accretion disk causes its electromagnetic radiation to depend on the emission angle. Although this dependency has the potential to influence the observational characteristics of black holes, it has…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-10 Dan Li , Shiyang Hu , Chen Deng , Xin Wu

We study the effects of emission geometry on the capability to constrain black hole parameters from measurements of the shadow and inner-shadow of a Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole. We investigate the capability to constrain mass, charge,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-17 Julien A. Kearns , Dominic O. Chang , Daniel C. M. Palumbo , Shane W. Davis

Most of the X-ray emission from luminous accreting black holes emerges from within 20 gravitational radii. The effective emission radius is several times smaller if the black hole is rapidly spinning. General Relativistic effects can then…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 A. C. Fabian

In this work, we investigate the gravitational lensing effects and the dynamic evolution of the shadow of Vaidya black holes by employing backward ray-tracing techniques. Within the celestial sphere framework, the black hole shadow exhibits…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-14 Ke-Jian He , Guo-Ping Li , Li-Fang Li , Xiao-Xiong Zeng

The shadows cast by non-rotating and rotating modified gravity (MOG) black holes are determined by the two parameters mass $M$ and angular momentum $J=Ma$. The sizes of the shadows cast by the spherically symmetric static Schwarzschild-MOG…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-26 J. W. Moffat

We investigate how magnetic field variations around accreting black holes on event horizon scales affect the morphology of magnetically-driven jet on larger scales. By performing radiative transfer calculations on general relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-24 Yuh Tsunetoe , Ramesh Narayan , Angelo Ricarte

The scarcity of quantum gravity (QG) inspired rotating black holes limits the progress of testing QG through Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observations. The EHT imaged the supermassive black holes, Sgr A* and M87*, revealing an angular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-30 Heena Ali , Shafqat Ul Islam , Sushant G. Ghosh

We consider astrophysics of large black holes localized on the brane in the infinite Randall-Sundrum model. Using their description in terms of a conformal field theory (CFT) coupled to gravity, deduced in Ref. [1], we show that they…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Roberto Emparan , Juan Garcia-Bellido , Nemanja Kaloper