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In this study, we have considered the Kerr-like black hole (BH) model in Horndeski gravity and analyse the visual characteristics of shadow images under two illumination models, such as a celestial light source and a thin accretion disk. To…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-09 Xiao-Xiong Zeng , Chen-Yu Yang , M. Israr Aslam , Rabia Saleem

Observations of the black hole shadow of supermassive black holes, such as Sagittarius A* at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, allow us to study the properties of black holes and the nature of strong-field gravity. According to the Kerr…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-14 Dimitry Ayzenberg , Nicolas Yunes

Using backwards ray tracing, we study the shadows of Kerr black holes with scalar hair (KBHsSH). KBHsSH interpolate continuously between Kerr BHs and boson stars (BSs), so we start by investigating the lensing of light due to BSs. Moving…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-25 Pedro V. P. Cunha , Carlos A. R. Herdeiro , Eugen Radu , Helgi F. Runarsson

According to the no-hair theorem, astrophysical black holes are uniquely characterized by their masses and spins and are described by the Kerr metric. Several parametric deviations from the Kerr metric have been suggested to study…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-06-24 Tim Johannsen , Dimitrios Psaltis

The presence of dark matter around a black hole remarkably affects its spacetime. We consider the effects of dark matter on the shadow of a new solution to the Einstein equations that describes a rotating black hole in the background of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-12 Sumarna Haroon , Mubasher Jamil , Kimet Jusufi , Kai Lin , Robert B. Mann

By considering the celestial light source and the thin disk source, we employ the backward ray-tracing method to carefully study the shadow, inner shadow and observational images of the non-singular rotating black holes in loop quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-30 Guo-Ping Li , He-Bin Zheng , Ke-Jian He , Qing-Quan Jiang

The No Hair theorem in classical general relativity predicts that rotating black holes are specified by the Kerr metric, which is uniquely identified by the mass and spin. However, as a pioneering study beyond general relativity, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-26 Zhen Li

The recent time witnessed a surge of interest in strong gravitational lensing by black holes is due to the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) results, which suggest comparing the black hole lensing in both general relativity and heterotic string…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-25 Sushant G. Ghosh , Rahul Kumar , Shafqat Ul Islam

In this work, we investigate geodesics and black hole shadows in the Kerr-Bertotti-Robinson spacetime. We show that the equations of motion for null geodesics are separable and admit analytical treatment, whereas timelike geodesics are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-12 Xinyu Wang , Yehui Hou , Xi Wan , Minyong Guo , Bin Chen

A recent research presented a solution for a Schwarzschild black hole with a force-free magnetic field showing how the canonical form of background metric changes, Found. Phys. 52 (2022) 4, 93. Therefore, it is logical that this research…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-01 Haidar Sheikhahmadi

The final ringdown phase in a coalescence process is a valuable laboratory to test General Relativity and potentially constrain additional degrees of freedom in the gravitational sector. We introduce here an effective description for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-27 Gabriele Franciolini , Lam Hui , Riccardo Penco , Luca Santoni , Enrico Trincherini

It is believed that curvature singularities are a creation of general relativity and hence, in the absence of a quantum gravity, models of nonsingular black holes have received significant attention. We study the shadow (apparent shape), an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-03 Muhammed Amir , Sushant G. Ghosh

For the short hairs that have a significant impact only near the event horizon, studying their strong gravitational lensing effects is of great significance for revealing the properties of these hairs. In this study, we systematically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-29 Lai Zhao , Meirong Tang , Zhaoyi Xu

We address the astrophysical imaging of a family of deformed Kerr black holes (BHs). These are stationary, asymptotically flat black hole (BH) spacetimes, that are solutions of General Relativity minimally coupled to a massive, complex…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-02 F. H. Vincent , E. Gourgoulhon , C. Herdeiro , E. Radu

We present a method for determining the physical parameters of a Kerr-Newman black hole through shadow observation. In a system comprising a Kerr-Newman black hole, an observer, and a light source, the relevant parameters are mass $M$,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-17 Kenta Hioki , Umpei Miyamoto

Embedded diagrams are drawn for investigating the black hole of Kerr and non-Kerr metric. Kerr black holes are characterized by masses $M$ and spin parameters $a$. Non-Kerr black holes also are characterized by the deformation parameters…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-26 Yong-Jin Han , Hyun-Chul Lee

The existence of black hole shadows is one of the most interesting effects of the strong field regime of general relativity (GR). Recent observations by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) have provided high-resolution images of the vicinity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-29 Jose R. Nascimento , Ana R. M. Oliveira , Albert Yu. Petrov , Paulo J. Porfírio , Amilcar R. Queiroz

The study of black hole shadows provides a powerful tool for testing the predictions of general relativity and exploring deviations from the standard Kerr metric in the strong gravitational field regime. Here, we investigate the shadow…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-13 Temurbek Mirzaev , Bobomurat Ahmedov , Cosimo Bambi

Real astronomical objects possess spin, yet deriving exact solutions for rotating black holes within gravitational theories is a formidable challenge. To understand the shadow of rotating black holes in Lorentz-violating spacetimes induced…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-04 Wentao Liu , Di Wu , Jieci Wang

Recent observations of black hole shadows have revolutionized our ability to probe gravity in extreme environments. This manuscript presents a novel analytic method to calculate, in leading-order terms, the key parameters of photon sphere…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-04 Vitalii Vertogradov , Ali Övgün