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A new solution of four-dimensional vacuum General Relativity is presented. It describes the near horizon region of the extreme (maximally spinning) binary black hole system with two identical extreme Kerr black holes held in equilibrium by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-02 Jacob Ciafre , Maria J. Rodriguez

Within 5-10 years, very-long baseline interferometry (VLBI) facilities will be able to directly image the accretion flow around SgrA$^*$, the super-massive black hole candidate at the center of the Galaxy, and observe the black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-06-19 Naoki Tsukamoto , Zilong Li , Cosimo Bambi

Astrophysical black holes are expected to be described by the Kerr metric. This is the only stationary, vacuum, axisymmetric metric, without electromagnetic charge, that satisfies Einstein's equations and does not have pathologies outside…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-17 The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

The recently obtained hairy Kerr black holes, due to additional sources or surrounding fluid, like dark matter, with conserved energy-momentum tensor, have a deviation $\alpha$ and primary hair $l_0$, apart from rotation parameter $a$ and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-01 Misba Afrin , Rahul Kumar , Sushant G. Ghosh

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

Embedded diagrams are drawn for investigating the black hole of Kerr and non-Kerr metric. Kerr black holes are characterized by masses $M$ and spin parameters $a$. Non-Kerr black holes also are characterized by the deformation parameters…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-26 Yong-Jin Han , Hyun-Chul Lee

We consider a Lorentz violating non-commutating Kerr-like spacetime and studied the superradiance effect and the shadow cast by the back hole. We extensively study the different aspects of the black hole associated with a generalized…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-22 Sohan Kumar Jha , Anisur Rahaman

In this work, taking the QED effect into account, we investigate the shadows of the Kerr black holes immersed in uniform magnetic fields through the numerical backward ray-tracing method. We introduce a dimensionless parameter $\Lambda$ to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-24 Zhen Zhong , Zezhou Hu , Haopeng Yan , Minyong Guo , Bin Chen

A recent work [Phys. Rev. D 111, 104040] shows that the curvature singularity of a black hole can vanish at a fine-tuned mass value, which implies that regular black holes could be special states in black hole evolution. We study the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-19 Xiao-Pin Rao , Hyat Huang

We explore the shadow of certain class of rotating traversable wormholes within classical general relativity. The images depend on the angular momentum of the wormhole, and the inclination angle of the observer. We compare the results with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-16 Petya G. Nedkova , Vassil Tinchev , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

The inner shadow of a black hole, as a projection of the event horizon, is regarded as a potential tool for testing gravitational theories and constraining system parameters. Whether this holds in the case of a tilted accretion disk…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-21 Shiyang Hu , Dan Li , Chen Deng

In this work, we investigate geodesics and black hole shadows in the Kerr-Bertotti-Robinson spacetime. We show that the equations of motion for null geodesics are separable and admit analytical treatment, whereas timelike geodesics are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-12 Xinyu Wang , Yehui Hou , Xi Wan , Minyong Guo , Bin Chen

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observation unveiled the first image of supermassive black hole Sgr A* showing a shadow of diameter $\theta_{sh}= 48.7 \pm 7\,\mu$as with fractional deviation from the Schwarzschild black hole shadow…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-10 Rahul Kumar Walia , Sushant G Ghosh , Sunil D Maharaj

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

We study the condition of black hole formation in five-dimensional space-time. We analytically solve the constraint equations of five-dimensional Einstein equations for momentarily static and conformally flat initial data of a spheroidal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Chul-Moon Yoo , Ken-ichi Nakao , Daisuke Ida

We study the occurrence of naked singularities in the spherically symmetric collapse of radiation shells in a higher dimensional spacetime. The necessary conditions for the formation of a naked singularity or a black hole are obtained. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. G. Ghosh , R. V. Saraykar

Using the Ernst formalism, a novel solution of vacuum general relativity (GR) was recently obtained [1], describing a Schwarzschild black hole (BH) immersed in a nonasymptotically flat rotating background, dubbed swirling universe, with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-30 Zeus S. Moreira , Carlos A. R. Herdeiro , Luís C. B. Crispino

An analytical model of a parabolic screen illuminating a black hole is proposed. This allows to avoid naturally the appearance of edge effects associated with photons moving along the plane of the screen. The temperature distribution along…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-17 Elena V. Mikheeva , Serge Repin , Vladimir N. Lukash

In this work, we study the shadow boundary curves of rotating time-dependent black hole solutions which have well-defined Kerr and Vaidya limits. These solutions are constructed by applying the Newman-Janis algorithm to a spherically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-22 H. S. Tan

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
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