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In this work, we study the geodesic structure for a geometry described by a spherically symmetric four-dimensional solution embedded in a five-dimensional space known as a brane-based spherically symmetric solution. Mainly, we have found…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-04 P. A. Gonzalez , Marco Olivares , Yerko Vasquez

It is proved, using the curved line element of a spherically symmetric charged object in general relativity and the Schwinger discharge mechanism of quantum field theory, that the orbital periods $T_{\infty}$ of test particles around…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-29 Shahar Hod

This work is devoted to the study of photon trajectories around rotating boson stars. The basic properties of boson star models are given with a particular emphasis on the high compactness those objects can have. Using an effective…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-12 Philippe Grandclément

McVittie spacetimes represent an embedding of the Schwarzschild field in isotropic cosmological backgrounds. Depending on the scale factor of the background, the resulting spacetime may contain black and white hole horizons, as well as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 Brien C. Nolan

In this study, we investigate the image of a rotating compact object (CO) illuminated by a geometrically thin, optically thin disk on the equatorial plane. As the radius of the CO's surface fluctuates, the CO may partially or entirely…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-26 Xiangyu Wang , Xiaobao Wang , Hai-Qing Zhang , Minyong Guo

One often-used approximation in the study of binary compact objects (i.e., black holes and neutron stars) in general relativity is the instantaneously circular orbit assumption. This approximation has been used extensively, from the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Mark Miller

We analyse how different Generalised Uncertainty Principles could place bounds on the compactness of self-gravitating systems. By considering existing experimental bounds on the relevant parameters, we conclude that the compactness of large…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-10 Roberto Casadio , Ilim Irfan Çimdiker , Octavian Micu , Jonas Mureika

An study of the equatorial circular motion of photons and massive particles around a rotating compact body like a neutron star is presented. For this goal, we use an approximate Kerr-like metric with mass quadrupole as perturbation. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-01 Diego Solano-Alfaro , Francisco Frutos-Alfaro

Photon spheres have attracted considerable interest in the studies of black holes and other astrophysical objects. For different categories of spacetimes (or gravitational sources), the existence of photon spheres and their distributions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-05 Chen-Kai Qiao , Ping Su , Yang Huang

We derive upper and lower bounds on the mass-radius ratio of stable compact objects in extended gravity theories, in which modifications of the gravitational dynamics via-{\' a}-vis standard general relativity are described by an effective…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-05 Piyabut Burikham , Tiberiu Harko , Matthew J. Lake

Exact formulas relating the radii of the spherical photon orbits to the black hole's rotation parameter and the effective inclination angle of the orbit have been known only for equatorial and polar orbits up to now. Here we provide exact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-18 Aydin Tavlayan , Bayram Tekin

Motivated by the importance of optical microscopes to science and engineering, scientists have pondered for centuries how to improve their resolution and the existence of fundamental resolution limits. In recent years, a new class of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-28 Mankei Tsang

According to various models, the orbital and the epicyclic frequencies of particles moving on a circular orbit around compact objects are related to the quasi-periodic oscillations observed in the X-ray flux of some pulsars or black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-27 Kalin V. Staykov , Daniela D. Doneva , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

This research delves into the optical characteristics of stationary, spherically symmetric black holes. These black holes follow the Konoplya-Zhidenko deformation rule in arbitrary gravity theories. This research finds that the effects of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-28 Qiao Yue , Zhaoyi Xu , Meirong Tang

The existence of closed null circular geodesics around black holes is one of the most intriguing predictions of general relativity. It has recently been conjectured that the radii of black-hole photonspheres are bounded from below by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-16 Shahar Hod

General relativity predicts that gravitational lensing near black holes will produce narrow "photon rings" on images. Building on recent work of Johnson, Lupsasca et al. focusing on circular rings, I calculate the long-baseline…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-12 Samuel E. Gralla

Light circling around an astrophysical black hole can spend a long time skirting its unstably bound photon orbits before escaping to infinity. To a distant observer, this orbiting light would appear as a bright ring encircling the image of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-10 Stéphane Detournay , Sahaja Kanuri , Alexandru Lupsasca , Philippe Spindel , Quentin Vandermiers , Raphaela Wutte

The general parametrization of spherically symmetric and asymptotically flat black-hole spacetimes in arbitrary metric theories of gravity was suggested in [3]. The parametrization is based on the continued fraction expansion in terms of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-18 R. A. Konoplya , A. Zhidenko

One of the main predictions of general relativity is the existence of black holes featuring a horizon beyond which nothing can escape. Gravitational waves from the remnants of compact binary coalescences have the potential to probe new…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-05 M. V. S. Saketh , Elisa Maggio

We examine the shadow cast by a Kerr black hole, focusing on constraints on photons corresponding to different shadow boundaries. The photons are related to different orbital ranges and impact parameter values, creating a map of the shadow…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-24 D. Pugliese , Z. Stuchlık