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The study of black hole (BH) shadows provide crucial insights into the nature of strong gravitational effects and the intricate structure of the spacetime surrounding BHs. In this paper, we explore the shadow of Kerr MOG BH within a plasma…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-30 Saira Yasmin , Khadije Jafarzade , Mubasher Jamil

Studies of dark matter models lie at the interface of astrophysics, cosmology, nuclear physics and collider physics. Constraining such models entails the capability to compare their predictions to a wide range of observations. In this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-22 Chiara Arina

We discuss the impact of a hidden sector consisting of Minicharged Particles (MCPs) and massless hidden photons on the expansion history of our Universe. We present parameter scans for the amount of extra relativistic particles (Neff) and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-04-24 Hendrik Vogel , Javier Redondo

A hidden sector that kinetically mixes with the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model provides simple and well-motivated dark matter candidates that possess many of the properties of a traditional weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP).…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-21 Patrick Barnes , Zachary Johnson , Aaron Pierce , Bibhushan Shakya

In this paper, we explore a scenario where the dark matter is a mixture of interacting and non interacting species. Assuming dark matter-photon interactions for the interacting species, we find that the suppression of the matter power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-05 Julia Stadler , Celine Bœhm , Olga Mena

In this paper, by exploring the photon motion in the region near the Bardeen black hole, the shadow and observation properties of the black hole surrounded by various accretion models are studied. We analyzed the changes in shadow imaging…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-17 Ke-Jian He , Sen Guo , Shuang-Cheng Tan , Guo-Ping Li

The dark photon is a new gauge boson whose existence has been conjectured. It is dark because it arises from a symmetry of a hypothetical dark sector comprising particles completely neutral under the Standard Model interactions. Dark though…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-02 Marco Fabbrichesi , Emidio Gabrielli , Gaia Lanfranchi

Several models of dark matter suggest the existence of dark sectors consisting of SU(3)_C x SU(2)_L x U(1)_Y singlet fields. These sectors of particles do not interact with the ordinary matter directly but could couple to it via gravity. In…

We study the shadow of the rotating black hole with quintessential energy i) in vacuum and ii) in the presence of plasma with radial power-law density. For vacuum case the quintessential field parameter of the rotating black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-18 Ahmadjon Abdujabbarov , Bobir Toshmatov , Zdeněk Stuchlík , Bobomurat Ahmedov

Clouds containing molecular dark matter in quantities relevant for star formation may exist in minihaloes of the type of cold dark matter included in many cosmological simulations or in the regions of some galaxies extending far beyond…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 T. A. Bell , T. W. Hartquist , S. Viti , D. A. Williams

Recently, a new framework for solving the hierarchy problem was proposed which does not rely on low energy supersymmetry or technicolor. The fundamental Planck mass is at a TeV and the observed weakness of gravity at long distances is due…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Philip C. Argyres , Savas Dimopoulos , John March-Russell

Dark matter (DM), a fundamental cosmic component, motivates the study of its influence on black hole (BH) shadows, especially for spinning BHs confirmed by EHT observations. This work generalizes the Schwarzschild BH surrounded by DM to an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-26 Haiyuan Feng , Ziqiang Cai , Rong-Jia Yang , Jinjun Zhang

In this paper, we first analyze the horizon structure of the Van der Waals(VdW) black hole and then investigate its shadow in the absence of a plasma medium as well as the presence of a homogeneous plasma medium. We find that both the Van…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-06 Niyaz Uddin Molla , Ujjal Debnath

Despite significant experimental sensitivity to point-like, weakly interacting particles at the electroweak mass scale, dark matter has not been found yet. This could hint at a more complex dark sector with multiple states or composite dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-02 Juri Smirnov

The precision era of multi-messenger astronomy, together with modern astrophysical, cosmological, and gravitational wave observations, increasingly points toward the existence of a ``dark" sector that cannot be explained within the…

A singlet fermion which interacts only with a new singlet scalar provides a viable and minimal scenario that can explain the dark matter. The singlet fermion is the dark matter particle whereas the new scalar mixes with the Higgs boson…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-10-30 Sonja Esch , Michael Klasen , Carlos E. Yaguna

We investigate particle and photon motion in the vicinity of a static and spherically symmetric black hole surrounded by perfect fluid dark matter in the presence of an external asymptotically uniform magnetic field. We determine the radius…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-28 Sanjar Shaymatov , Daniele Malafarina , Bobomurat Ahmedov

The nature of dark matter remains a central unresolved problem in contemporary physics, motivating the exploration of well-defined extensions of the Standard Model. Among these, the Inert Doublet Model provides a minimal and theoretically…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-11 Rameswar Sahu

Dark sectors, consisting of new, light, weakly-coupled particles that do not interact with the known strong, weak, or electromagnetic forces, are a particularly compelling possibility for new physics. Nature may contain numerous dark…

In this paper, we investigate the topological photon sphere from two distinct perspectives. In the first view, we examine the existence and characteristics of topological photon(anti-photon)spheres for black holes with different structures,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-15 Jafar Sadeghi , Mohammad Ali S. Afshar