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In this paper, we mainly investigate the shadow of a rotating charged black hole with a cosmological constant immersed in perfect fluid dark matter. We first obtain the charged spherically symmetric black hole with a cosmological constant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-13 Zheng-Long Ban , Xiao-Jun Gao , Jinsong Yang

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

In this study, we investigate the geodesic structure, gravitational lensing/mirroring phenomena, and scalar perturbations of deformed AdS-Schwarzschild black holes with global monopoles, incorporating both ordinary and phantom…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-18 Faizuddin Ahmed , Ahmad Al-Badawi , İzzet Sakallı

In this paper we present the images of binary black holes using the Majumdar-Papapetrou multiblack hole solution, depending on the parameters of the problem: the mass of black holes, the distance between them, and the inclination of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-22 S. V. Chernov

In this paper we describe a model of a four-dimensional spherically symmetric black hole in a limiting curvature theory of gravity. In this theory the Einstein-Hilbert action is modified by adding to the action terms providing inequality…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-02 Valeri P. Frolov , Andrei Zelnikov

In this work, we derive new analytic, static, symmetric black hole solutions in theories involving dark photons with minimal and higher-order magnetic dipole interactions. Starting from the effective non-relativistic potential between…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-13 Ali Övgün , Reggie C. Pantig

The null geodesics and the distance of closest approach for photon around a rotating dyonic black hole in $\mathcal{N} = 2, U(1)^2$ gauged supergravity is studied. The phenomenon of black hole shadows with various black hole parameters has…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-27 Prateek Sharma , Hemwati Nandan , Uma Papnoi , Arindam Kumar Chatterjee

In this paper, the shadows cast by non-rotating and rotating modified gravity black holes are investigated. In addition to the black hole spin parameter $a$ and the inclination angle $\theta$ of observer, another parameter $\alpha$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-08 Hui-Min Wang , Yu-Meng Xu , Shao-Wen Wei

A simple, analytical fitting-formula for a photometric light curve of a source of light orbiting around a black hole is presented. The formula is applicable for sources on a circular orbit with radius smaller than 45 gravitational radii…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 V. Karas

Analogue gravity studies the physics of curved spacetime in laboratory experiments, where the propagation of elementary excitations in inhomogeneous flows is mapped to those of scalar fields in a curved spacetime metric. While most analogue…

In this study, we examine the phenomenon of photon axion conversion occurring in the spacetime surrounding a black hole. Specifically, we focus on the potential existence of a magnetic field around the supermassive black hole M87*, which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-28 Sourov Roy , Pratick Sarkar , Subhadip Sau , Soumitra SenGupta

For a static and spherically symmetric black hole, a photon sphere is composed of circular null geodesics of fixed radius, and plays an important role in observing the black hole. Recently, in an Einstein-Maxwell-scalar model with a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-29 Guangzhou Guo , Peng Wang , Houwen Wu , Haitang Yang

We propose a new test of strong-field general relativity (GR) based on the universal interferometric signature of the black hole photon ring. The photon ring is a narrow ring-shaped feature, predicted by GR but not yet observed, that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-09 Samuel E. Gralla , Alexandru Lupsasca , Daniel P. Marrone

It is widely believed that the curvature singularities are an artifact of general relativity and may not exist in the Universe, and likely to be defined by the quantum gravity. In the absence of successful quantum gravity, significant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-25 Fazlay Ahmed , Dharm Veer Singh , Sushant G Ghosh

This work aims to explore the gravitational consequences of a recently proposed black hole solution presented in the literature [Phys. Dark Univ. 50 (2025) 102061]. We initiate our analyzes by taking into account the horizon structure,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-18 A. A. Araújo Filho , N. Heidari , Iarley P. Lobo

Strong self-gravitational fields enable the realization of macroscopic odd-parity quantum objects. Using ray-tracing methods, we systematically analyze the dynamics of photons and the shadow features of rotating black holes with parity-odd…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-14 Yang Huang , Dao-Jun Liu , Hongsheng Zhang

This paper investigates the optical appearance of a Schwarzschild-like black hole (BH) surrounded by a Dehnen-(1, 4, 5/2) type dark matter (DM) halo, with a focus on how the DM halo's density $\rho_{s}$ and radius $r_{s}$ influence the BH's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-17 Zuting Luo , Meirong Tang , Zhaoyi Xu

We revisit the classic system of a spherically symmetric black hole in general relativity (i.e., a Schwarzschild black hole) surrounded by a geometrically thin accretion disk. Our purpose is to examine whether one can determine three…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-08 Kenta Hioki , Umpei Miyamoto

The Kerr black holes possess a photon region with prograde and retrograde orbits radii, respectively, $M\leq r_p^-\leq 3M$ and $3M\leq r_p^+\leq 4M$, and thereby always cast a closed photon ring or a shadow silhouette for $a\leq M$. For…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-25 Rahul Kumar , Sushant G. Ghosh

We study the possibility of identifying dark matter in the galactic center from the physical properties of the electromagnetic radiation emitted from a optical-thin disk region around a static and spherically symmetric black hole. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-03 Saurabh , Kimet Jusufi