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The optical appearance of a body compact enough to feature an unstable bound orbit, when surrounded by an accretion disk, is expected to be dominated by a luminous ring of radiation enclosing a central brightness depression typically known…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-25 Gonzalo J. Olmo , João Luís Rosa , Diego Rubiera-Garcia , Diego Sáez-Chillón Gómez

In the Einstein-bumblebee gravity, the Lorentz symmetry is spontaneously broken by a vector field. In this paper, we attempt to test the Lorentz symmetry via the observation of the shadow cast by the Kerr-like black hole with or without…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-29 Hui-Min Wang , Shao-Wen Wei

We study photon orbits within (1+2)-dimensional Einstein-power-Maxwell non-linear electrodynamics assuming a static and circularly symmetric background. An exact analytical solution to the null geodesic equations for light rays is obtained…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-13 Grigoris Panotopoulos , Angel Rincon

We study gravitational collapse of a spherically symmetric scalar field in Einstein-aether theory (general relativity coupled to a dynamical unit timelike vector field). The initial value formulation is developed, and numerical simulations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 David Garfinkle , Christopher Eling , Ted Jacobson

Non-linear interaction between the electromagnetic fields (EMF) occurs when vacuum polarization in quantum electrodynamics (QED) happens. The field of non-linear electrodynamics, which may result from this interaction, could have important…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-09 Akhil Uniyal , Reggie C. Pantig , Ali Övgün

We study spherical black-hole solutions in Einstein-aether theory, a Lorentz-violating gravitational theory consisting of General Relativity with a dynamical unit timelike vector (the "aether") that defines a preferred timelike direction.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-11 Enrico Barausse , Ted Jacobson , Thomas P. Sotiriou

Based on the backward ray-tracing method, this paper numerically investigates the shadow and polarization images of rotating Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) black hole within the framework of a thin disk model. We systematically analyze the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-10 Bing-Bing Chen , Chen-Yu Yang , Deyou Chen , Ke-Jian He

We investigate the effects of quintessence dark energy on the shadows of black hole, surrounded by various profiles of accretions. For the thin disk accretion, the images of the black hole comprises the dark region and bright region,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-02 Xiao-Xiong Zeng , Hai-Qing Zhang

We construct exact black hole solutions to Einstein gravity with nonlinear electrodynamic field. In these solutions, there are in general four parameters. They are physical mass, electric charge, cosmological constant and the coupling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-27 Shuang Yu , Changjun Gao

Since the full General Theory of Relativity has been unveiled to the scientific community in 1915, many solutions to the vacuum Einstein field equations have been found and studied. This paper aims at documenting exhaustively the derivation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-18 Onur Uçanok

In this paper, we systematically investigate the optical appearance of a Schwarzschild black hole illuminated by three geometrically thin accretion disk models under varying observational inclination angles. Based on the geometric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-12 Jiawei Chen , Jinsong Yang

Interpreting horizon-scale observations of astrophysical black holes demands a general understanding of null geodesics in the Kerr spacetime. These may be divided into two classes: "direct" rays that primarily determine the observational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-18 Samuel E. Gralla , Alexandru Lupsasca

We calculate the photon sphere $r_{ph}$ and critical curve $b_c$ for the quantum corrected Schwarzschild black hole, finding that they violate an universal inequalities proved for asymptotically flat black holes which satisfy null energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-01 Jun Peng , Minyong Guo , Xing-Hui Feng

Using the AdS/CFT correspondence, this paper investigates the holographic images of a charged black hole within the context of Lorentz symmetry breaking massive gravity. The photon rings, luminosity-deformed rings, or light points from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-20 Xiao-Xiong Zeng , Li-Fang Li , Pan Li , Bo Liang , Peng Xu

We obtain an exact Kerr-like black hole solution by solving the corresponding gravitational field equations in Einstein-bumblebee gravity model where Lorentz symmetry is spontaneously broken once a vector field acquires a vacuum expectation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-18 Chikun Ding , Changqing Liu , R. Casana , A. Cavalcante

We discuss the problem of identification of coupling constants, which describe interactions between photons and space-time curvature, using exact regular solutions to the extended equations of the nonminimal Einstein-Maxwell theory. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-18 Alexander B. Balakin , Alexei E. Zayats

Einstein-aether gravity is a theory that breaks the local Lorentz symmetry by introducing a preferred direction via a vector field, which is considered to play the role of an aether. The theory is identified by four coupling constants…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-27 Kamal Hajian

We present, in closed analytic form, a general stationary, slowly rotating black hole, which is solution to a large class of alternative theories of gravity in four dimensions. In these theories, the Einstein-Hilbert action is supplemented…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-10-27 Paolo Pani , Caio F. B. Macedo , Luis C. B. Crispino , Vitor Cardoso

This study investigates the optical appearance of rotating scalarized Kerr-Newman black holes in the Einstein-Maxwell-scalar theory with exponential coupling. By analyzing equatorial null geodesics, these black holes are classified into six…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-14 Yiqian Chen , Li Li , Peng Wang

Spacetime perturbations due to scalar, vector, and tensor fields on a fixed background geometry can be described in the framework of Teukolsky's equation. In this work, wave scattering is treated analytically, using the Green's function…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-26 Felix Willenborg , Dennis Philipp , Claus Lämmerzahl