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Circular photon orbit and black hole shadow are significantly important issues in physics and astronomy, and a number of breakthroughs have been witnessed in recent years. Conventionally, the stable and unstable circular photon orbits are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-12 Chen-Kai Qiao , Ming Li

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

We investigate the impact of higher-curvature corrections on black-hole observables within a perturbative $f(R, G)$ gravity framework. Working in a static, spherically symmetric spacetime, we construct leading-order deviations from the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-26 G. G. L. Nashed

We investigate the radii of the photon sphere and the black hole shadow in the framework of $F(R)$ gravity. For this purpose, we derive the field equation for the corresponding theory when the general spherically symmetric and static…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-19 Shin'ichi Nojiri , S. D. Odintsov

We give a brief review on the formation and the calculation of black hole shadow. Firstly, we introduce the conception of black hole shadow and the current works on a variety of black hole shadows. Secondly, we present main methods of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-11 Mingzhi Wang , Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing

Photon sphere has attracted significant attention since the capture of black hole shadow images by Event Horizon Telescope. Recently, a number of studies have highlighted that the number of photon spheres and their distributions near black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-25 Chen-Kai Qiao

We consider applications of the curvature radius of a Kerr black hole shadow and propose three new approaches to simultaneously determine the black hole spin and inclination angle of the observer. The first one uses only two symmetric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-27 Shao-Wen Wei , Yuan-Chuan Zou , Yu-Xiao Liu , Robert B. Mann

Black hole shadows are a widespread topic in astrophysics. This paper searches for an optical view of the black hole and the relationship between black hole shadow and photon sphere with curvature. We were inspired by the observations of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-26 Ajay Kumar Sharma , Kanav Ganguly , Murli Manohar Verma

In this paper, we first consider null geodesics of a class of charged, spherical and asymptotically flat hairy black holes in an Einstein-Maxwell-scalar theory with a non-minimal coupling for the scalar and electromagnetic fields.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-07 Qingyu Gan , Peng Wang , Houwen Wu , Haitang Yang

Black hole shadows and photon spheres offer valuable tools for investigating black hole properties. Recent observations by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration have confirmed the existence of rotating black holes. Black hole parameters…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-26 Vitalii Vertogradov , Ali Övgün , Reggie C. Pantig

In this paper, we introduce a new approach to study the behavior of the photon sphere and shadow radius. Our method uses extended gravitational decoupling and reveals two important analytic results. First, the additional matter field alters…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-04 Vitalii Vertogradov , Ali Övgün

Photon spheres have attracted considerable interest in the studies of black holes and other astrophysical objects. For different categories of spacetimes (or gravitational sources), the existence of photon spheres and their distributions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-05 Chen-Kai Qiao , Ping Su , Yang Huang

In this work, we consider two recently introduced novel regular black hole solutions and investigate the circular null geodesics to find the connection between the photon sphere, the horizon and the black hole shadow radii. We also study…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-01 Khadije Jafarzade , Mahdi Kord Zangeneh , Francisco S. N. Lobo

Circular photon orbits have become an attractive topic in recent years. They play extremely important roles in black hole shadows, gravitational lensings, quasi-normal modes, and spacetime topological properties. In our recent work,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-11 Chenkai Qiao , Ming Li , Donghui Xie , Minyong Guo

Aims. In order to understand the anisotropic properties of local radiation field in the curved spacetime around a rotating black hole, we investigate the appearance of a black hole seen by an observer located near the black hole. When the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Rohta Takahashi , Masaaki Takahashi

Exact formulas relating the radii of the spherical photon orbits to the black hole's rotation parameter and the effective inclination angle of the orbit have been known only for equatorial and polar orbits up to now. Here we provide exact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-18 Aydin Tavlayan , Bayram Tekin

In this paper we derive exact analytical formulas for the evolution of the photon sphere and for the angular radius of the shadow in a special Vaidya spacetime. The Vaidya metric describes a spherically symmetric object that gains or loses…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-01 Jay Solanki , Volker Perlick

Black hole thermodynamics is a crucial and foundational aspect of black hole physics, yet its observational verification remains exceptionally challenging. The photon sphere of a black hole, a manifestation of strong gravitational effects,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-29 Si-Jiang Yang , Shan-Ping Wu , Shao-Wen Wei , Yu-Xiao Liu

The motion of photons around black holes determines the shape of shadow and match the ringdown properties of a perturbed black hole. Observations of shadows and ringdown waveforms will reveal the nature of black holes. In this paper, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-29 Song Li , Ahmadjon A. Abdujabbarov , Wen-Biao Han

Recently, a black hole model in loop quantum gravity has been proposed by Lewandowski, Ma, Yang and Zhang (Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{130}, 101501 (2023)). The metric tensor of the quantum black hole (QBH) is a suitably modified Schwarzschild…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-30 Jing-Peng Ye , Zhi-Qing He , Ai-Xu Zhou , Zi-Yang Huang , Jia-Hui Huang
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