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We have studied photon motion around axially symmetric rotating Kerr black hole in the presence of plasma with radial power-law density. It is shown that in the presence of plasma the observed shape and size of shadow changes depending on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-21 Farruh Atamurotov , Bobomurat Ahmedov , Ahmadjon Abdujabbarov

With the back-reaction of Hawking radiation taken into consideration, the work of Kawai, Matsuo and Yokokura has shown that, under a few assumptions, the collapse of matter does not lead to event horizon nor apparent horizon. In this paper,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-22 Pei-Ming Ho

We study the impact of different fluid matter scenarios on the shadow of black holes (BH) and on frequencies of quasinormal modes (QNM) for a black hole subjected to scalar perturbations, with a comparison to the standard Kerr. The analysis…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-10 Reza Pourkhodabakhshi , Jorge G. Russo

The characteristic difference between a black hole and other exotic compact objects (ECOs) is the presence of the horizon. The horizon of a classical black hole acts as a one-way membrane. Due to this nature, any perturbation on the black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-25 Sayak Datta

Here we provide shadow images of a Kerr-like black hole (BH) in cold dark matter (CDM) halo illuminated with a celestial light source and a thin accretion disk. The impact of spin parameter, critical density and the scale radius on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-13 Xiao-Xiong Zeng , Chen-Yu Yang , M. Israr Aslam , Rabia Saleem , Sadia Aslam

We establish a direct connection between the interior curvature structure of nonsingular black holes (BHs) with a Minkowski core and their observable optical signatures. By classifying these spacetimes into three fundamental types, Type I…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-25 Ming-Xin Li , Jin Pu , Yi Ling , Guo-Ping Li

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

The accretion around the black hole plays a pivotal role in the theoretical analysis of black hole shadow, and of the black hole observation in particular. In this paper, we mainly study the shadow and observation characteristics of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-26 Xiao-Xiong Zeng , Guo-Ping Li , Ke-Jian He

The key difference between neutron stars and black holes is the presence/absence of a solid surface. Recent attempts to detect this difference have concentrated on the quiescent luminosity, but here these sources are faint and difficult to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Chris Done , Marek Gierlinski

The existence of black hole shadows is one of the most interesting effects of the strong field regime of general relativity (GR). Recent observations by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) have provided high-resolution images of the vicinity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-29 Jose R. Nascimento , Ana R. M. Oliveira , Albert Yu. Petrov , Paulo J. Porfírio , Amilcar R. Queiroz

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 paper, we discuss how the shadow of a Kerr black hole depends on the motion of the observer. In particular, we derive an analytical formula for the boundary curve of the shadow for an observer moving with given four-velocity at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-07 Arne Grenzebach

Plasma, as a medium around the black hole for light propagation, is known to visibly alter the shape of its shadow and the observables, which could impact the interpretation of the Event Horizon Telescope results. In this study, we examine…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-13 Connor McMillin , Zhichen Guan , Owen Gartlan , Lotus Liu , Leo Rodriguez , Shanshan Rodriguez

This paper investigates photon motion in black hole of Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton theory, exploring black hole shadows and observational characteristics under various accretion models. We first give the relation of the event horizon, photon…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-16 Junlin Qin , Hong-Er Gong , Yusen Wang , Zhan-Feng Mai , Bofeng Wu , Sen Guo , Enwei Liang

Black hole (BH) shadows in dynamical binary BHs (BBHs) have been produced via ray-tracing techniques on top of expensive fully non-linear numerical relativity simulations. We show that the main features of these shadows are captured by a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-12 Pedro V. P. Cunha , Carlos A. R. Herdeiro , Maria J. Rodriguez

Recent observations by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) indicate that the shadow of the compact object at our Galaxy's center (Sgr A*) closely resembles that of a Schwarzschild black hole. However, identifying the presence and exact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-24 Ashok B. Joshi , Vishva Patel , Parth C. Varasani

In this article, we provide a review of the current state of the research of the black hole shadow, focusing on analytical (as opposed to numerical and observational) studies. We start with particular attention to the definition of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-27 Volker Perlick , Oleg Yu. Tsupko

For dark compact objects such as black holes or wormholes, the shadow size has long been thought to be determined by the unstable photon sphere (region). However, by considering the asymmetric thin-shell wormhole (ATSW) model, we find that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-23 Xiaobao Wang , Peng-Cheng Li , Cheng-Yong Zhang , Minyong Guo

In a recent work PRD 106, L021501 (2022), a new geometric approach is proposed to obtain the photon sphere (circular photon orbit) and the black hole shadow radius. In this approach, photon spheres and the black hole shadow radius are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-11 Chen-Kai Qiao

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