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The lack of rotating black holes, typically found in nature, hinders testing modified gravity from astrophysical observations. We present the axially symmetric counterpart of an existing spherical hairy black hole in Horndeski gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-27 Rahul Kumar Walia , Sunil D. Maharaj , Sushant G. Ghosh

Understanding the observations of dynamical tracers and the trajectories of lensed photons at galactic scales within the context of General Relativity (GR), requires the introduction of a hypothetical dark matter dominant component. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-28 X. Hernandez , R. A. Sussman , L. Nasser

As an extension of a previous work in which perihelion advances are considered only and as an attempt to find more stringent constraints on its parameters, we investigate effects on astronomical observation and experiments conducted in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-12-17 Yi Xie , Xue-Mei Deng

This study probes spacetime solutions within Einstein-Bumblebee gravity, a modified gravitational framework incorporating spontaneous Lorentz symmetry violation through a vector field mechanism. By introducing a cosmological constant into…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-04 Reggie C. Pantig , Shubham Kala , Ali Övgün , Nikko John Leo S. Lobos

Born-Infeld black holes in the Scalar-Tensor Theories of Gravity, in the case of massless scalar field, have been recently obtained. The aim of the current paper is to study the effect from the inclusion of a potential for the scalar field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-14 Ivan Zh. Stefanov , Daniela A. Georgieva , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev , Michail D. Todorov

In this paper, charged black holes in general relativity coupled to Born-Infeld electrodynamics are studied as gravitational lenses. The positions and magnifications of the relativistic images are obtained using the strong deflection limit,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Ernesto F. Eiroa

A new class of analytically expressible vacuum solutions has recently been discovered for pure ${R}^2$ gravity, building upon Buchdahl's seminal work from 1962. These solutions, inspired by Buchdahl's framework, offer a promising avenue for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-17 Jian-Ming Yan , Tao Zhu , Qiang Wu

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) recently released an image of the supermassive black hole Sgr A* showing an angular shadow diameter $d_{sh}= 48.7 \pm 7\,\mu$as and Schwarzschild shadow deviation $\delta =…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-28 Sushant G. Ghosh , Misba Afrin

A test particle possessing spin angular momentum moves along a non-geodesic path due to an additional spin-curvature force. We study the spinning test particle moving in the vicinity of the electrically charged black hole formation in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-20 Ke Yang , Bao-Min Gu , Yu-Peng Zhang

The distribution of dark matter (DM) halo around supermassive black holes (BHs) may leave observable imprints on stellar dynamics near galactic centers. Motivated by this, we investigate the orbital motion of the S2 star in the spacetime of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-22 Tursunali Xamidov , Sanjar Shaymatov , Qiang Wu

The GRAVITY Collaboration achieved the remarkable detection of the orbital precession of the S2 star around the Galactic centre supermassive black hole, providing yet another proof of the validity of the General Relativity. The departure…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-18 Ivan de Martino , Riccardo della Monica , Mariafelicia de Laurentis

We investigate $f(T)$ theory coupled with a nonlinear source of electrodynamics, for a spherically symmetric and static spacetime in $4D$. We re-obtain the Born-Infeld and Reissner-Nordstrom-AdS solutions. We generalize the no-go theorem…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Ednaldo L. B. Junior , Manuel E. Rodrigues , Mahouton J. S. Houndjo

We study the motion of charged and spinning particles and photons in the $4D$ charged Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) black hole vicinity. We determine the radius of the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) for test particles. We show that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-01 Farruh Atamurotov , Sanjar Shaymatov , Pankaj Sheoran , Sanjay Siwach

Astrophysical black holes (BHs) are universally expected to be described by the Kerr metric, a stationary, vacuum solution of general relativity (GR). Indeed, by imaging M87$^\star$ and Sgr A$^\star$ and measuring the size of their shadows,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-07 Prashant Kocherlakota , Luciano Rezzolla , Rittick Roy , Maciek Wielgus

In the context of Born-Infeld gravity theories we report the existence of a regular black hole interior representing a spherically symmetric vacuum solution of the theory. It reduces to the Schwarzschild interior metric in the weak field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-30 Christian G. Boehmer , Franco Fiorini

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has guided strong-field gravitational physics by providing the first direct images of the supermassive black holes M87* and Sagittarius A*. The EHT observations offer unprecedented opportunities to test…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-16 Towheed Ahmad Nengroo , Shafqat Ul Islam , Sushant G. Ghosh

We consider the bending angle of the trajectory of a photon incident from and deflected to infinity around a Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole. We treat the bending angle as a function of the squared reciprocal of the impact parameter and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-04 Tadashi Sasaki

We study the strong gravitational lensing effect around rotating black holes in different gravity theories. By calculating the deflection angle of strong gravitational lensing, we evaluate the lensing observables including the image…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-20 Xiao-Mei Kuang , Zi-Yu Tang , Bin Wang , Anzhong Wang

A new theory of gravity called Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld (EiBI) gravity was recently proposed by Ba\~{n}ados and Ferreira. This theory leads to some exciting new features, such as free of cosmological singularities. In this paper, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-29 Shao-Wen Wei , Ke Yang , Yu-Xiao Liu

The M87* black hole shadow observation by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has enabled us to test the modified gravity theories in the extreme-field regime and estimating the black hole parameters. Having this assertion, we investigate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-06 Sushant G. Ghosh , Rahul Kumar Walia