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We present exact black hole solutions endowed with magnetic charge coming from exponential and logarithmic nonlinear electrodynamics (NLED). Classically, we analyze the null and timelike geodesics, all of which contain both the bound and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-14 A S. Habibina , B. N. Jayawiguna , H. S. Ramadhan

Light bending by the strong gravity around the black hole will form the so-called black hole shadow, the shape of which can shed light on the structure of the near-horizon geometry to possibly reveal novel physics of strong gravity and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-28 Feng-Li Lin , Avani Patel , Hung-Yi Pu

Supersymmetric closed string theories contain an infinite tower of BPS-saturated, oscillating, macroscopic strings in the perturbative spectrum. When these theories have dual formulations, this tower of states must exist nonperturbatively…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 A. Dabholkar , J. P. Gauntlett , J. A. Harvey , D. Waldram

We investigate properties of two-dimensional asymptotically flat black holes which arise in both string theory and in scale invariant theories of gravity. By introducing matter sources in the field equations we show how such objects can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-06 R. B. Mann , M. S. Morris , S. F. Ross

We investigate the geodesic structure and optical appearance of compact objects with primary scalar hair in shift- and parity-symmetric beyond Horndeski gravity. The analytic solution considered here depends on a theory parameter and a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-29 Hyat Huang , Jutta Kunz , Rashmi Uniyal , Xiao Qian Wang

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

This study investigates a Schwarzschild-anti de Sitter black hole coupled to a cloud of strings featuring only the electric-like component of the string bivector, embedded in a perfect fluid dark matter and a quintessence field. We examine…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-28 Faizuddin Ahmed , Edilberto O. Silva

We represent a new approach to exploring the thermodynamic topology of black holes, without introducing the nonphysical variable $\Theta\in[0,\pi]$ considered in previous studies, where black holes can exchange both energy and matter with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-29 Cao H. Nam

We study closed photon orbits in spherically-symmetric static solutions of supergravity theories, a Horndeski theory, and a theory of quintessence. These orbits lie in what we shall call a photon sphere (anti-photon sphere) if the orbit is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-26 M. Cvetic , G. W. Gibbons , C. N. Pope

This study examines the gravitational and thermodynamic properties of static, spherically symmetric black holes within cosmic voids -- vast underdense regions of the universe. By deriving a novel solution based on a universal density…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-09 Francisco Bento Lustosa , Milko Estrada , Marcony S. Cunha , Celio R. Muniz

Null geodesics, quasinormal modes of a massless scalar field perturbation and the correspondence with shadow radii are investigated in the background spacetime of high-dimensional Einstein-Yang-Mills black holes. Based on the properties of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-27 Yang Guo , Yan-Gang Miao

We analyze the null geodesics of regular black holes. A detailed analysis of geodesic structure both null geodesics and time-like geodesics have been investigated for the said black hole. As an application of null geodecics, we calculate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-27 Monimala Mondal , Anil Kumar Yadav , Parthapratim Pradhan , Sayeedul Islam , Farook Rahaman

We investigate non-linear, spherically symmetric solutions to the coupled system of a quintessence field and Einstein gravity. In the presence of a scalar potential, we find regular solutions that to an outside observer very closely…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Timm Krueger , Matthias Neubert , Christof Wetterich

We study spherically symmetric, asymptotically flat black hole solutions in the low-energy effective heterotic string theory, which is the Einstein gravity with Gauss-Bonnet term and the dilaton, in various dimensions. We derive the field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-18 Zong-Kuan Guo , Nobuyoshi Ohta , Takashi Torii

In this paper, we investigate the null geodesics of the static charged black hole in heterotic string theory. A detailed analysis of the geodesics are done in the Einstein frame as well as in the string frame. In the Einstein frame, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Sharmanthie Fernando

There are circular planar null geodesics at $r=3M$ around a Schwarzschild black hole of mass $M$. These geodesics form a photon sphere. Null geodesics of the Schwarzschild space-time which do not form the photon sphere are either escape to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-03 Andrey A. Shoom

We study the geodesics of charged black holes in polynomial Maxwell Lagrangians, a subclass of models within the nonlinear electrodynamics (NLED). Specifically, we consider black holes in Kruglov, power-law, and Ayon-Beato-Garcia models.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-08 A S. Habibina , H. S. Ramadhan

Features such as photon rings, jets, or hot. spots can leave particular topological signatures in a black hole image. As such, topological data analysis can be used to characterize images resulting from high resolution observations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-11 Pierre Christian , Chi-kwan Chan , Anthony Hsu , Feryal Ozel , Dimitrios Psaltis , Iniyan Natarajan

In this paper, we base our analysis on the assumption that the existence of a photon sphere is an intrinsic feature of any ultra-compact gravitational structure with spherical symmetry. Utilizing the concept of a topological photon sphere,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-24 Mohammad Ali S. Afshar , Jafar Sadeghi

Black hole solutions are studied here within the symmetric teleparallel formulation of gravity, employing the $f(Q)$ model in which the gravitational dynamics are governed by the non-metricity scalar $Q$. We focus on static, circularly…

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