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When the the shadow image of a supermassive black hole in the center of M87 was obtained a new era in the observational astrophysics began. The resolution improvement would allow to test extended gravity models at event horizon scales. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-26 S. O. Alexeyev , V. A. Prokopov

In this paper, we employ a ray-tracing algorithm to simulate the shadows of three equal-mass black holes in static equilibrium across a wide parameter space. We find that the shadows consist of a larger primary shadow and several distorted,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-19 Dan Li , Yuxiang Zuo , Shiyang Hu , Chen Deng , Yu Wang , Wenfu Cao

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) image of M87* provides a direct test of strong-field gravity, measuring an angular shadow diameter $\theta_{d}=42\pm 3~\mu\mathrm{as}$ and a circularity deviation $\Delta C\leq 0.1$. Such observations allow…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-13 Kourosh Nozari , Milad Hajebrahimi , Sara Saghafi , G. Mustafa , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

In this paper, we study the shadow produced by rotating black holes with charge in the presence of an anisotropic matter field. We obtain the apparent shape and the corresponding observables characterizing the size, oblateness, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-24 Javier Badía , Ernesto F. Eiroa

A new class of vacuum black holes for the most general gravity theory leading to second order field equations in the metric in even dimensions is presented. These space-times are locally AdS in the asymptotic region, and are characterized…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 Andres Anabalon , Fabrizio Canfora , Alex Giacomini , Julio Oliva

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

Shift-symmetric Horndeski theories admit an interesting class of Schwarzschild black hole solutions exhibiting time-dependent scalar hair. By making use of Lema\^{i}tre coordinates, we analyze perturbations around these types of black…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-09 Justin Khoury , Mark Trodden , Sam S. C. Wong

We present a comprehensive theoretical investigation of a novel black hole (BH) spacetime: a Schwarzschild BH embedded in a Hernquist-type dark matter halo (HDMH) and surrounded by a cloud of cosmic strings (CSs) -- collectively termed the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-24 Faizuddin Ahmed , Ahmad Al-Badawi , İzzet Sakallı

By using the Taylor series method and the solution-generating method, we construct exact black hole solutions with minimally coupled scalar field. We find that the black hole solutions can have many hairs except for the physical mass. These…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-13 Changjun Gao , Jianhui Qiu

Shadows of black holes surrounded by an optically thin emitting medium have been extensively discussed in the literature. The Hioki-Maeda algorithm is a simple recipe to characterize the shape of these shadows and determine the parameters…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-04 Lingyun Yang , Zilong Li

As an alternative to the "no hair conjecture," the "no short hair conjecture" for hairy black holes was established earlier. This theorem stipulates that hair must be present above 3/2 of the event horizon radius for a hairy black hole. It…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-15 Pabitra Tripathy

In four-dimensional vacuum general relativity the only known static, exact and analytical black hole solution is given by the Schwarzschild spacetime. In this paper this renowned metric is generalised by adding another integrating constant,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-26 Marco Astorino

We investigate the light deflection and the shadow characteristics of a non-minimally coupled Horndeski black hole surrounded by a magnetized, cold, pressureless plasma medium, while considering both homogeneous and non-homogeneous plasma…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-24 Shubham Kala , Jaswinder Singh

We analyze the light rays around a static hairy black hole in Horndeski gravity with the use of ray-tracing procedure. We find that a stronger Horndeski hairy parameter corresponds to larger photon sphere as well as critical impact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-30 Xi-Jing Wang , Xiao-Mei Kuang , Yuan Meng , Bin Wang , Jian-Pin Wu

In this paper, we investigate the properties of null geodesics, thermodynamics, gravitational lensing, and black hole shadows in the vicinity of a static regular Frolov black hole. By analyzing the trajectories of null geodesics, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-26 Shubham Kala , Hemwati Nandan , Kush Maithani , Saswati Roy , Amare Abebe

The horizon structure and thermodynamics of hairy spherically symmetric black holes generated by the gravitational decoupling method are carefully investigated. The temperature and heat capacity of the black hole is determined, as well as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-11 Rogerio T. Cavalcanti , Kelvin dos S. Alves , Julio M. Hoff da Silva

The horizon-scale images of black holes obtained with the Event Horizon Telescope have provided new probes of their metrics and tests of General Relativity. The images are characterized by a bright, near circular ring from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-28 Feryal Ozel , Dimitrios Psaltis , Ziri Younsi

Black hole superradiance, which only relies on gravitational interactions, can provide a powerful probe of the existence of ultralight bosons that are weakly coupled to ordinary matter. However, as a boson cloud grows through superradiance,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-04 William E. East

We consider $f(R)$ gravity theories in the presence of a scalar field minimally coupled to gravity with a self-interacting potential in $(2+1)$-dimensions. Without specifying the form of the $f(R)$ function, we first obtain an exact black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-31 Thanasis Karakasis , Eleftherios Papantonopoulos , Zi-Yu Tang , Bin Wang

In recent years, the evidence for the existence of an ultra-compact concentration of dark mass associated with the radio source Sgr A* in the Galactic Center has become very strong. However, an unambiguous proof that this object is indeed a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Heino Falcke , Fulvio Melia , Eric Agol