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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

We have studied photon motion around axially symmetric rotating Kerr black hole in the presence of plasma with radial power-law density. It is shown that in the presence of plasma the observed shape and size of shadow changes depending on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-21 Farruh Atamurotov , Bobomurat Ahmedov , Ahmadjon Abdujabbarov

Plasma, as a medium around the black hole for light propagation, is known to visibly alter the shape of its shadow and the observables, which could impact the interpretation of the Event Horizon Telescope results. In this study, we examine…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-13 Connor McMillin , Zhichen Guan , Owen Gartlan , Lotus Liu , Leo Rodriguez , Shanshan Rodriguez

In the paper we discuss propagation of light around Kerr black hole surrounded by non-magnetized cold plasma with infinite conductivity. For that purpose, we use equations for propagation of light rays obtained within Synge's approach in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-13 Matej Sárený , Vladimír Balek

We obtain the deflection angle for a boosted Kerr black hole in the weak field approximation. We also study the behavior of light in the presence of plasma by considering different distributions: singular isothermal sphere, non-singular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-03 Carlos A. Benavides-Gallego , A. A. Abdujabbarov , Cosimo Bambi

We have investigated the characteristics of shadows cast by the Kerr black hole in the presence of plasma and compared them to those of a rotating wormhole in a uniform plasma space-time for an observer at infinity. Interestingly, for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-03 Saurabh Kumar , Akhil Uniyal , Sayan Chakrabarti

We explore the structure of shadow for a Kerr-de Sitter black hole with a non-magnetized, pressureless plasma surrounding it. Specific plasma distributions are considered to separate the Hamilton-Jacobi equation and find the photon regions.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-16 Abhishek Chowdhuri , Arpan Bhattacharyya

We study the shadow produced by a class of rotating black holes surrounded by plasma. The metric for these black holes arises by applying the Newman-Janis algorithm to a family of spherically symmetric spacetimes, which includes several…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-08 Javier Badía , Ernesto F. Eiroa

To approach a more reliable observational signature of a high-spin Kerr black hole, one should take into account the effects of its surroundings. To this end we study in this paper the influence of a surrounding plasma. We consider its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-08 Haopeng Yan

We investigate the gravitational lensing of massless particles around a Kerr-Sen black hole immersed in a magnetized, cold, pressureless plasma medium. Both homogeneous and inhomogeneous plasma distributions are considered in this study to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-15 Saswati Roy , Shubham Kala , Sayanika Modak , Hemwati Nandan , Amare Abebe

The study of black hole (BH) shadows provide crucial insights into the nature of strong gravitational effects and the intricate structure of the spacetime surrounding BHs. In this paper, we explore the shadow of Kerr MOG BH within a plasma…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-30 Saira Yasmin , Khadije Jafarzade , Mubasher Jamil

We analytically calculate the influence of a plasma on the shadow of a black hole (or of another compact object). We restrict to spherically symmetric and static situations, where the shadow is circular. The plasma is assumed to be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-18 Volker Perlick , Oleg Yu. Tsupko , Gennady S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan

We have studied the null geodesics in the background of the Kerr-Newman black hole veiled by a plasma medium using the Hamilton-Jacobi method. The in uence of black hole's charge and plasma parameters on the effective potential and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-10 Gulmina Zaman Babar , Abdullah Zaman Babar , Farruh Atamurotov

We analyze the shadow of charged stationary axially symmetric space-time (Kerr-Sen dilaton-axion black hole). This black hole is defined by a mass $M$, a spin $a$ and $r_{\alpha}=Q^{2}/M$, where $Q$ is the electric charge. Shadows are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-01 Sara Dastan , Reza Saffari , Saheb Soroushfar

We study the photon's motion around a black hole in the presence of a plasma whose density is a function of the radius coordinate by a renewed ray-tracing algorithm and investigate the influence of the plasma on the shadow of the black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-18 Yang Huang , Yi-Ping Dong , Dao-Jun Liu

Considering a Kerr black hole surrounded by the homogenous unmagnetised plasma medium, we study the strong gravitational lensing on the equatorial plane of the Kerr black hole. We find that the presence of the uniform plasma increases the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-11 Changqing Liu , Chikun Ding , Jiliang Jing

In this work, we obtain the deflection angle for a boosted Kerr black hole in the weak field approximation using the optics in a curved spacetime developed by J.L. Synge in 1960. We study the behavior of light in the presence of plasma by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-24 Carlos A. Benavides-Gallego , Ahmadjon Abdujabbarov

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 study the influence of the plasma environment on the shadows of stationary axisymmetric wormholes. We consider a sample of several wormhole solutions and plasma distributions for which the Hamilton-Jacobi equation for the light rays is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-16 Tsanimir Angelov , Rasim Bekir , Galin Gyulchev , Petya Nedkova , Stoytcho Yazadjiev

In this paper, light propagation in a pressure-free non-magnetized plasma on Kerr spacetime is considered, which is a continuation of our previous study [Phys. Rev. D 95, 104003 (2017)]. It is assumed throughout that the plasma density is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-20 Volker Perlick , Oleg Yu. Tsupko
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