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The recent observation of the shadow of the supermassive compact object M87$^*$ by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration has opened up a new window to probe the strong gravity regime. In this paper, we study shadows cast by two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-07 Rajibul Shaikh , Kunal Pal , Kuntal Pal , Tapobrata Sarkar

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is taking the first images of black holes resolved at horizon scales to measure their shadows and probe accretion physics. A promising avenue for testing the hypothesis that astrophysical black holes are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-17 Lia Medeiros , Dimitrios Psaltis , Feryal Özel

We study the shadows of disformal black holes in vector-tensor Galileons modified gravity. Our analysis shows that the apparent image of the black hole in the observer's sky is non-spherical and cuspy, which is in contrast to the Kerr and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-25 Tsvetan Vetsov , Galin Gyulchev , Stoytcho Yazadjiev

We propose a method for measuring the black hole charge by imaging a black hole shadow in a galactic center by future interferometers. Even when the black hole is uncharged, it is possible to confirm the charge neutrality by this method. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Rohta Takahashi

The study of astrophysical phenomena like black hole shadows is an effective approach to properly understand the modified gravity and explore its validity. Motivated by recent astrophysical observations, we consider a black hole (BH) in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-20 Khadije Jafarzade , Zeynab Bazyar , Mubasher Jamil

We propose a new test of strong-field general relativity (GR) based on the universal interferometric signature of the black hole photon ring. The photon ring is a narrow ring-shaped feature, predicted by GR but not yet observed, that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-09 Samuel E. Gralla , Alexandru Lupsasca , Daniel P. Marrone

We consider the black hole (BH) shadow images which can be restored by data processing and image recovery procedures in future space Very Large Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) missions. For Kerr BHs with masses and coordinates of SgrA*, M87*…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-26 E. V. Mikheeva , S. V. Repin , V. N. Lukash

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

We consider applications of the curvature radius of a Kerr black hole shadow and propose three new approaches to simultaneously determine the black hole spin and inclination angle of the observer. The first one uses only two symmetric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-27 Shao-Wen Wei , Yuan-Chuan Zou , Yu-Xiao Liu , Robert B. Mann

In this work, we investigate the signatures of black holes within an effective quantum gravity framework recently proposed in the literature [1] . We begin by outlining the general setup, highlighting the two distinct models under…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-12 N. Heidari , A. A. Araújo Filho , R. C. Pantig , A. Övgün

Astrophysical black holes are expected to be described by the Kerr metric. This is the only stationary, vacuum, axisymmetric metric, without electromagnetic charge, that satisfies Einstein's equations and does not have pathologies outside…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-17 The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

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

Combined with the observation of M87*, shadow has gradually became a promising test of the black hole nature. Recently, EHT collaboration gave new constraints on the shadow size at 68\% confidence levels. In this work, we consider the new…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-06 Shao-Wen Wei , Yuan-Chuan Zou

The silhouette of a black hole having a critical curve (an unstable bound photon orbit) when illuminated by an optically thin accretion disk whose emission is confined to the equatorial plane shows a distinctive central brightness…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-11 Merce Guerrero , Gonzalo J. Olmo , Diego Rubiera-Garcia , Diego Sáez-Chillón Gómez

This paper investigates the observable properties of a Kerr-Sen black hole surrounded by a thin accretion disk, focusing on the impact of the black hole's spin and charge on the image. Using ray-tracing techniques, we conduct a detailed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-24 Pei Wang , Sen Guo , Li-Fang Li , Zhan-Feng Mai , Bo-Feng Wu , Wen-Hao Deng , Qing-Quan Jiang

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has provided a new tool for testing the strong-field regime of gravity by imaging the shadows of M87* and Sgr A*. These observations provide the first real opportunity to test whether quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-29 Heena Ali , Sushant G. Ghosh

We investigate the shadow cast by a sort of new regular black holes which are characterized by an asymptotically Minkowski core and the Sub-Planckian curvature. Firstly, we extend the metric with spherical symmetry to the one of rotating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-17 Yi Ling , Meng-He Wu

The advent of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a millimeter-wave very-long baseline interferometric array, has enabled spatially-resolved studies of the sub-horizon-scale structure for a handful of supermassive black holes. Among these,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-03-05 Avery E. Broderick , Tim Johannsen , Abraham Loeb , Dimitrios Psaltis

We extract elegant and concise analytic formulae for the mass and rotation parameters of the Kerr black hole as well as its distance from the Earth only in terms of directly measurable quantities of the accretion disk revolving in the black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-09 Mehrab Momennia

The black hole shadow, a direct probe of the event horizon's gravitational influence, has been observationally confirmed by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). While theoretical models of shadows in vacuum are mature, real astrophysical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-20 Sai Karan Mukthapuram , Sandeep Kumar Kataria