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We study the shadow produced by a class of rotating black holes surrounded by plasma. The metric for these black holes arises by applying the Newman-Janis algorithm to a family of spherically symmetric spacetimes, which includes several…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-08 Javier Badía , Ernesto F. Eiroa

Classical black holes contain a singularity at their core. This has prompted various researchers to propose a multitude of modified spacetimes that mimic the physically observable characteristics of classical black holes as best as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-08 Thomas Berry , Alex Simpson , Matt Visser

With the imaging and characterization of the horizon-scale images of M87* and Sgr A* by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), it has become possible to resolve the near-horizon region of astrophysical black holes. As a result, there has been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-31 Avery E. Broderick , Kiana Salehi , Boris Georgiev

We consider spherically symmetric black holes with minimally coupled scalar fields and concentrate our attention on asymptotically flat self-gravitating configurations having the event horizons located at radii much smaller than $2m$. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-10 I. M. Potashov , Ju. V. Tchemarina , A. N. Tsirulev

Shadow boundaries can be confused with material boundaries as both exhibit sharp changes in luminance or contrast within a scene. However, shadows do not modify the intrinsic color or texture of surfaces. Therefore, on both sides of shadow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Shilin Hu , Hieu Le , ShahRukh Athar , Sagnik Das , Dimitris Samaras

The so-called black hole shadow is not a silhouette of a black hole but an image of a collapsing object or a white hole. Hence it is non-trivial whether black hole shadows merge with each other when black holes coalesce with each other. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-12 Kazumasa Okabayashi , Nobuyuki Asaka , Ken-ichi Nakao

We investigate the dynamic shadows of a black hole with a self-interacting massive complex scalar hair. The complex scalar field \psi evolves with time t, and its magnitude on the apparent horizon |\psi_{h}| starts from zero, undergoes a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-25 Mingzhi Wang , Cheng-Yong Zhang , Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing

Event horizons are a defining feature of black holes. Consequently, there have been many efforts to probe their existence in astrophysical black hole candidates, spanning ten orders of magnitude in mass. Nevertheless, horizons remain an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-19 Shokoufe Faraji , Avery E. Broderick

The apparent shadow of a black hole provides one of the most direct probes of strong-field general relativity. While the shadow size in asymptotically flat spacetimes is well understood, the influence of cosmic expansion on its apparent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-26 Debarshi Mukherjee

Investigations of shadows of astrophysical entities constitute a major source of insight into the evolution of compact objects. Such effects depend on the nature of the compact object and arise on account of the strong gravitational lensing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-21 Muhammed Amir , Kimet Jusufi , Ayan Banerjee , Sudan Hansraj

We investigate the effects of quintessence dark energy on the shadows of black hole, surrounded by various profiles of accretions. For the thin disk accretion, the images of the black hole comprises the dark region and bright region,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-02 Xiao-Xiong Zeng , Hai-Qing Zhang

We study, for the first time, the shadow of the supermassive black hole Sgr A$^{*}$ at the center of the Milky Way in dark matter halos. For the Cold Dark Matter and Scalar Field Dark Matter models considered in this work, the apparent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-25 Xian Hou , Zhaoyi Xu , Ming Zhou , Jiancheng Wang

We use a 3D Monte Carlo radiative transfer code to study the projection of large shadows by circumstellar disks around young stellar objects on surrounding reflection nebulosity. It is shown that for a wide range of parameters a small…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. M. Pontoppidan , C. P. Dullemond

In this work, taking the QED effect into account, we investigate the shadows of the static black hole with magnetic monopoles and neutral black holes in magnetic fields through the numerical backward ray-tracing method. For a static black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-03 Zezhou Hu , Zhen Zhong , Peng-Cheng Li , Minyong Guo , Bin Chen

We describe the dynamical formation of the shadow of a collapsing star in a Hayward spacetime in terms of an observer far away from the center and a free falling observer. By solving the time-like and light-like radial geodesics we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-01 Daniel Nunez , Juan Carlos Degollado

We consider rotating charged black holes with a scalar dilaton field and surrounded by plasma, with the purpose of studying their shadows. The corresponding metric has been previously obtained in the literature from the static solution by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-19 Javier Badía , Ernesto F. Eiroa

In this work, we investigate the shadow properties of the Kerr-Newman-Anti-de Sitter black hole coupled to a nonlinear electrodynamics. We construct the shadow by employing the celestial coordinate approach for observers located at finite…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-20 Mohsen Fathi

In this paper, we study the shadow produced by rotating black holes with charge in the presence of an anisotropic matter field. We obtain the apparent shape and the corresponding observables characterizing the size, oblateness, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-24 Javier Badía , Ernesto F. Eiroa

To comprehend the shadow of a black hole in a general spacetime, we have investigated the concept of the maximal black room (MBR). The boundary of the MBR is a non-spacelike hypersurface that contains at least one null geodesic tangent to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-16 Masaru Siino

Existence of a photon circular orbit can tell us a lot about the nature of the underlying spacetime, since it plays a pivotal role in the understanding of the characteristic signatures of compact objects, namely the quasi-normal modes and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-10 Sumanta Chakraborty