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We have derived the differential equation governing the evolution of the photon sphere for dynamical black hole spacetimes with or without spherical symmetry. Numerical solution of the same depicting evolution of the photon sphere has been…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-06-05 Akash K Mishra , Sumanta Chakraborty , Sudipta Sarkar

A photon sphere is known as the geometrical structure shaping a black hole shadow. The mechanism is well understood for static or stationary black hole spacetimes such as the Schwarzschild and the Kerr spacetimes. In this paper, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-25 Yasutaka Koga , Nobuyuki Asaka , Masashi Kimura , Kazumasa Okabayashi

We develop a compact and transparent framework for photon dynamics and shadow formation in slowly evolving, spherically symmetric spacetimes. Starting from the Eddington-Finkelstein action, we derive a force-decomposed radial equation in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-10 Vitalii Vertogradov , Ali Övgün

To understand the nature of a black hole shadow in dynamical spacetimes, we construct an analytical model of a dynamical photon sphere in the context of the Bonnor-Vaidya spacetime. Comparing the resulting photon sphere radius with the one…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-11 Yaghoub Heydarzade , Vitalii Vertogradov

In a recent work PRD 106, L021501 (2022), a new geometric approach is proposed to obtain the photon sphere (circular photon orbit) and the black hole shadow radius. In this approach, photon spheres and the black hole shadow radius are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-11 Chen-Kai Qiao

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

In this work, we study the shadow boundary curves of rotating time-dependent black hole solutions which have well-defined Kerr and Vaidya limits. These solutions are constructed by applying the Newman-Janis algorithm to a spherically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-22 H. S. Tan

The mass of a black hole can dynamically evolve due to various physical processes, such as for instance accretion, Hawking radiation, absorption of gravitational/electromagnetic waves, superradiance, etc. This evolution can have an impact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-03 Lodovico Capuano , Luca Santoni , Enrico Barausse

The Event Horizon Telescope's 2024 observations report a shift in the position angle of the brightness asymmetry in M87*, revealing time variability in the black hole's image. In this analysis, we investigate the time-dependent of a Vaidya…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-24 Yu Liang , Sen Guo , Kai Lin , Yu-Hao Cui , Yu-Xiang Huang , Tao Yu

In this paper, we introduce a new approach to study the behavior of the photon sphere and shadow radius. Our method uses extended gravitational decoupling and reveals two important analytic results. First, the additional matter field alters…

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

The ingoing Vaidya metric is introduced as a model for a non-rotating uncharged black hole emitting Hawking radiation. This metric is expected to capture the physics of the spacetime for radial coordinates up to a small multiple $(>1)$ of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-12 Julius Piesnack , Klaus Kassner

Black hole thermodynamics is a crucial and foundational aspect of black hole physics, yet its observational verification remains exceptionally challenging. The photon sphere of a black hole, a manifestation of strong gravitational effects,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-29 Si-Jiang Yang , Shan-Ping Wu , Shao-Wen Wei , Yu-Xiao Liu

We consider a class of static and spherically symmetric black hole geometries endowed with a photon sphere. On the one hand, we show that close to the photon sphere, a massless scalar field theory exhibits a simple dynamical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-24 Bernard Raffaelli

Starting from the first law of black hole thermodynamics, we establish an explicit correspondence between the corrected entropy and the metric function under the condition of fixed black hole energy and horizon position. Using the corrected…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-14 Fang Liu , Yu-Bo Ma , Yun-Zhi Du , Huai-Fan Li

The Vaidya metric serves as a useful model-building tool that captures many essential features of dynamical and/or evaporating black hole spacetimes. Working in a semiclassical setting, we show that in the limit of slow evaporation, a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-25 Pravin Kumar Dahal , Fil Simovic

Under very general assumptions on the accretion flow geometry, images of a black hole illuminated by electromagnetic radiation display a sequence of photon rings (demagnified and rotated copies of the direct image) which asymptotically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-24 Maciek Wielgus

We study some quantum mechanical aspects of dynamical black holes where the Vaidya metric is used as a model representing evaporating black holes. It is shown that in this model the Wheeler-DeWitt equation is solvable in whole region of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Ichiro Oda

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

In this work, we study the shadow and photon sphere of the black bole in clouds of strings and quintessence with static and infalling spherical accretions. We obtain the geodesics of the photons near a black hole with different impact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-05 Aoyun He , Jun Tao , Yadong Xue , Lingkai Zhang

An explicit correspondence is established between the Extended Uncertainty Principle (EUP) and the metric function by directly relating the radiation temperature function modified by EUP to the modified spacetime metric. Utilising this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-10 Hai-Long Zhen , Jian-Hua Shi , Huai-Fan Li , Yu-Bo Ma
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