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Following up on a recent analysis by Psaltis et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 141104 (2020)], we show that the observed shadow size of M87$^*$ can be used to unambiguously and robustly constrain the black hole geometry in the vicinity of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-13 Sebastian H. Völkel , Enrico Barausse , Nicola Franchini , Avery E. Broderick

We explore the shadows and the photon rings casted by black holes in cavity. Placing the observer inside such an isothermal background, we examine the influence of the cavity temperature T_{cav} and the charge Q on the involved optical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-02 A. Belhaj , H. Belmahi , M. Benali , M. Oualaid , M. B. Sedra

In this work, starting from a spherically symmetric scale--dependent black hole, a rotating solution is obtained by following the Newman--Janis algorithm without complexification. Besides studying the horizon, the static conditions and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-01 Ernesto Contreras , Ángel Rincón , Grigoris Panotopoulos , Pedro Bargueño , Benjamin Koch

The improved version of ghost-free $f(\mathcal{G})$ gravity introduced in Phys.~Lett.~B \textbf{631} (2005), 1-6 is proposed and investigated. It is demonstrated that improved ghost-free $f(\mathcal{G})$ gravity may be consistently applied…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-16 Shin'ichi Nojiri , S. D. Odintsov

Seeking singularity free solutions are important for further understanding black holes in quantum level. Recently, a five-dimensional singularity free black hole/topological star was constructed [Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 151101 (2021)].…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-23 Wen-Di Guo , Shao-Wen Wei , Yu-Xiao Liu

In this study, we investigate the black hole shadow of an exact black hole solution of the loop quantum gravity (LQG) theory. We discuss some of its optical characteristics after generalizing it to the rotational case, including null…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-21 Shu Luo , Cheng-Hao Li

This paper investigates the shadow of a charged rotating non-commutative black hole. For this purpose, we first formulate the null geodesics and study the effects of non-commutative charge on the photon orbit. We then explore the effect of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-21 M. Sharif , Sehrish Iftikhar

In this work, we investigate a spherically symmetric charged black hole in the presence of a Kalb--Ramond field background. We calculate the photon sphere and shadow radii and, corroborating our results, we constrain them from observational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-10 F. Hosseinifar , A. A. Araújo Filho , M. Y. Zhang , H. Chen , H. Hassanabadi

We revisit and extend the study of null geodesics around a slowly rotating black hole in Chern-Simons modified gravity. We employ the Hamilton-Jacobi formalism to derive the equations for the shadow profile and determine its shape. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-17 Benito Rodríguez , Javier Chagoya , C. Ortiz

The transonic phenomenon of black hole accretion and the existence of the photon sphere are the characteristics of strong gravitational fields near a black hole horizon. In this work, we study spherical accretion flow onto a general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-01 Sen Yang , Cheng Liu , Tao Zhu , Li Zhao , Qiang Wu , Ke Yang , Mubasher Jamil

The motion of particles on spherical $1 + 3$ dimensional spacetimes can, under some assumptions, be described by the curves on a 2-dimensional manifold, the optical and Jacobi manifolds for null and timelike curves, respectively. In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-01 Pedro V. P. Cunha , Carlos A. R. Herdeiro , João P. A. Novo

Within 5-10 years, submillimeter VLBI facilities will be hopefully able to image the "shadow" of SgrA$^*$. When a black hole is surrounded by an optically thin emitting medium, the boundary of the shadow corresponds to the apparent photon…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-19 Cosimo Bambi

In a recent work on rotating black hole shadows [Phys. Rev. D{\bf 101}, 084029 (2020)], we proposed a new approach for calculating size and shape of the shadows in terms of astrometrical observables with respect to finite-distance…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-11 Zhe Chang , Qing-Hua Zhu

Accurately inferring black hole spin is crucial for understanding black hole dynamics and their astrophysical environments. In this work, we outline a geometric method for spin estimation by using the interferometric shape of the first…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-22 Lennox S. Keeble , Alejandro Cárdenas-Avendaño , Daniel C. M. Palumbo

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 investigate the shadow cast by a sort of new regular black holes which are characterized by an asymptotically Minkowski core and the Sub-Planckian curvature. Firstly, we extend the metric with spherical symmetry to the one of rotating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-17 Yi Ling , Meng-He Wu

In this paper, we have investigated the geodesics of neutral particles near a five-dimensional charged black hole using a comparative approach. The effective potential method is used to determine the location of the horizons and to study…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-05-22 Sarbari Guha , Pinaki Bhattacharya , Subenoy Chakraborty

This paper investigates the metric of previously proposed regular black holes, calculates their effective potentials, and plots the curves of the effective potentials. By determining the conserved quantities, the dynamical equations for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-17 Zihan Xi , Chen Wu , Wenjun Guo

We investigate the geodesic motion in the background of Kerr-Sen Black Hole arising in the heterotic string theory. The nature of effective potential is discussed in radial as well as latitudinal direction. A special class of spherical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-30 Rashmi Uniyal , Hemwati Nandan K. D. Purohit

Higher-order photon rings can be expected to be detected in a more detailed image of the black hole found in future observations. These rings are lensed images of the luminous matter surrounding the black hole and are formed by photons that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-20 Oleg Yu. Tsupko