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Gravitational atoms produced from the superradiant extraction of rotational energy of spinning black holes can reach energy densities significantly higher than that of dark matter, turning black holes into powerful potential detectors for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-15 Yifan Chen , Xiao Xue , Richard Brito , Vitor Cardoso

In this work, we investigate geodesics and black hole shadows in the Kerr-Bertotti-Robinson spacetime. We show that the equations of motion for null geodesics are separable and admit analytical treatment, whereas timelike geodesics are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-12 Xinyu Wang , Yehui Hou , Xi Wan , Minyong Guo , Bin Chen

This paper investigates photon motion in black hole of Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton theory, exploring black hole shadows and observational characteristics under various accretion models. We first give the relation of the event horizon, photon…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-16 Junlin Qin , Hong-Er Gong , Yusen Wang , Zhan-Feng Mai , Bofeng Wu , Sen Guo , Enwei Liang

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

The shadows cast by non-rotating and rotating modified gravity (MOG) black holes are determined by the two parameters mass $M$ and angular momentum $J=Ma$. The sizes of the shadows cast by the spherically symmetric static Schwarzschild-MOG…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-26 J. W. Moffat

Dilatonic dyon black hole solution with gravitational radius $2 \mu$ and two charges $Q_1$ and $Q_2$ (electric and magnetic ones) in the gravitational $4d$ model with one scalar field and one 2-form is considered. Dilatonic coupling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-19 V. D. Ivashchuk , U. S. Kayumov , A. N. Malybayev , G. S. Nurbakova

The shadow of a black hole can be one of the strong observational evidences for stationary black holes. If we see shadows at the center of galaxies, we would say whether the observed compact objects are black holes. In this paper, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-20 Naoki Tsukamoto

We present a novel method to study interacting orbits in a fixed mean gravitational field associated with a solution of the Einstein field equations. The idea is to consider the Newton gravity among the orbiting particles in a geometry…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eduardo Gueron , Patricio S. Letelier

The phase structure of charged Anti-de Sitter black hole in massive gravity is investigated using the unstable circular photon orbits formalism, concretely we establish a direct link between the null geodesics and the critical behavior…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-12 M. Chabab , H. El Moumni , S. Iraoui , K. Masmar

Regular black hole is one of the bottom-up solutions designed to eliminate the singularity at the center of black holes. Its horizonless solution has gained interest recently to model ultracompact star. Despite interesting, this proposal is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-26 M. F. Fauzi , H. S. Ramadhan , A. Sulaksono

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

During the glorious success of the EHT in providing the first image of a black hole, numerous papers have been published about the effect of different astrophysical environments on black hole geometry. Motivated by the work on how…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-08 Reggie C. Pantig

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

A distinct visual signature occurs in black holes that are surrounded by optically thin and geometrically thick emission regions. This signature is a sharp-edged dip in brightness that is coincident with the black-hole shadow, which is the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-03 Thomas Bronzwaer , Heino Falcke

We study scattering of polarized light by a rotating (Kerr) black hole of the mass M and the angular momentum J. In order to keep trace of the polarization dependence of photon trajectories one can use the following dimensionless parameter:…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 Valeri P. Frolov , Andrey A. Shoom

Recently the quantum Oppenheimer-Snyder gravitational collapse model has been proposed in loop quantum gravity, providing quantum-corrected Schwarzschild spacetimes as the exterior of the collapsing dust ball. In this paper, the quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-20 Jinsong Yang , Cong Zhang , Yongge Ma

In this work, we investigate the observable optical signatures of the Mod(A)Max black hole spacetime. We analyze key optical features, including the photon sphere, black hole shadow, and photon trajectories, and examine how these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-03 Faizuddin Ahmed , Ahmad Al-Badawi , Edilberto O. Silva

The Horizon Quantum Mechanics is an approach that allows one to analyse the gravitational radius of spherically symmetric systems and compute the probability that a given quantum state is a black hole. We first review the (global) formalism…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-09 Roberto Casadio , Andrea Giugno , Andrea Giusti , Octavian Micu

In this paper, we base our analysis on the assumption that the existence of a photon sphere is an intrinsic feature of any ultra-compact gravitational structure with spherical symmetry. Utilizing the concept of a topological photon sphere,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-24 Mohammad Ali S. Afshar , Jafar Sadeghi

We consider monochromatic and isotropic photon emission from circular equatorial Kerr orbiters. We derive analytic expressions for the photon escape probability and the redshift-dependent total flux collected on the celestial sphere as a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-03 Delilah E. A. Gates , Shahar Hadar , Alexandru Lupsasca