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Starting from the first law of black hole thermodynamics, we establish an explicit correspondence between the corrected entropy and the metric function under the condition of fixed black hole energy and horizon position. Using the corrected…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-14 Fang Liu , Yu-Bo Ma , Yun-Zhi Du , Huai-Fan Li

The photon sphere, a hypersurface of circular null geodesics, plays a fundamental role in characterizing black hole spacetimes, influencing phenomena such as black hole shadows, gravitational lensing, and quasinormal modes. While universal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-25 Yong Song , Jiaqi Fu , Yiting Cen

In this work, we consider a rotating charged black hole surrounded by perfect fluid dark matter. We consider the system to be immersed in non-magnetised, pressureless plasma. First, we evaluate the null geodesics in order to study the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-06 Anish Das , Ashis Saha , Sunandan Gangopadhyay

The photon sphere, a hypersurface of null circular geodesics, plays a fundamental role in characterizing black hole spacetimes, influencing phenomena such as black hole shadows, gravitational lensing, and quasinormal modes. In this work, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-28 Yong Song , Jiaqi Fu , Yiting Cen

A photon sphere is known as the geometrical structure shaping a black hole shadow. The mechanism is well understood for static or stationary black hole spacetimes such as the Schwarzschild and the Kerr spacetimes. In this paper, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-25 Yasutaka Koga , Nobuyuki Asaka , Masashi Kimura , Kazumasa Okabayashi

The existence of closed null circular geodesics around black holes is one of the most intriguing predictions of general relativity. It has recently been conjectured that the radii of black-hole photonspheres are bounded from below by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-16 Shahar Hod

The black hole shadow is fundamentally connected to the structure of light rings and the photon region in the background geometry. We investigate the photon region boundary in a generic asymptotically flat, stationary, axisymmetric black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-09 Prasad Padhye , Kajol Paithankar , Sanved Kolekar

There are now multiple direct probes of the region near black hole horizons, including direct imaging with the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). As a result, it is now of considerable interest to identify what aspects of the underlying…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-06 Kiana Salehi , Avery Broderick , Boris Georgiev

We develop a perturbation theory for surfaces confining photons and massive particles in static spherically symmetric spacetimes in terms of two parameters: the mass-to-energy ratio and the deviation of metric functions from a given form,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-22 Kirill Kobialko , Dmitri Gal'tsov

We study the shadow of rotating charge black holes in the presence of quintessence. The shadow of a rotating black hole is a distorted circle and in our study, we find that the shape and size of the black hole shadow depend upon four…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-05 Balendra Pratap Singh

We study the motion of bound null geodesics with fixed coordinate radius around a five-dimensional rotating black hole. These spherical photon orbits are not confined to a plane, and can exhibit interesting quasiperiodic behaviour. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-14 Mark Bugden

An explicit correspondence is established between the Extended Uncertainty Principle (EUP) and the metric function by directly relating the radiation temperature function modified by EUP to the modified spacetime metric. Utilising this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-10 Hai-Long Zhen , Jian-Hua Shi , Huai-Fan Li , Yu-Bo Ma

Under very general assumptions on the accretion flow geometry, images of a black hole illuminated by electromagnetic radiation display a sequence of photon rings (demagnified and rotated copies of the direct image) which asymptotically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-24 Maciek Wielgus

We consider spherically symmetric and static charged black holes in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet-Maxwell gravities in general $D\ge 5$ dimensions and study their photon spheres and black hole shadows. We show that they all satisfy the sequence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-10 Liang Ma , H. Lu

We investigate black holes with non-minimal couplings between the electromagnetic field and spacetime curvature, focusing on their event horizons, shadows, and photon rings. Such couplings can naturally arise from both classical effective…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-21 Zhixiang Yin , Changjun Gao , Yun-Long Zhang

Zhang have obtained recently a twisted rotating black hole metric, which is a vacuum solution in four-dimensional Einstein gravity. This black hole solution has a rotation parameter, but without the total angular moment. Here, we have…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-21 Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing

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

We explore an interesting connection between black hole shadow parameters and the acceleration bounds for radial linear uniformly accelerated (LUA) trajectories in static spherically symmetric black hole spacetime geometries of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-29 Kajol Paithankar , Sanved Kolekar

Black hole photon spheres or light rings are closely linked to astronomical phenomena, such as the gravitational waves and the shadow in spherically symmetric or axi-symmetric spacetime. In Cunha and Herdeiro [Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 181101…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-16 Shao-Wen Wei

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