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We address the astrophysical imaging of a family of deformed Kerr black holes (BHs). These are stationary, asymptotically flat black hole (BH) spacetimes, that are solutions of General Relativity minimally coupled to a massive, complex…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-02 F. H. Vincent , E. Gourgoulhon , C. Herdeiro , E. Radu

Motivated by inclination of the Earth's orbit that is not located at galactic plane for observing the shadow of Sgr A*, we consider the black hole shadow for arbitrary inclinations and different velocities of observers. A surprising finding…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-07 Zhe Chang , Qing-Hua Zhu

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has guided strong-field gravitational physics by providing the first direct images of the supermassive black holes M87* and Sagittarius A*. The EHT observations offer unprecedented opportunities to test…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-16 Towheed Ahmad Nengroo , Shafqat Ul Islam , Sushant G. Ghosh

An unusual set of orbits about extreme Kerr black holes resides at the Boyer-Lindquist radius $r = M$, the coordinate of the hole's event horizon. These ``horizon skimming'' orbits have the property that their angular momentum $L_z$ {\it…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Scott A. Hughes

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a global submillimeter wavelength very long baseline interferometry array, unveiled event-horizon-scale images of the supermassive black hole M87* as an asymmetric bright emission ring with a diameter of $…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-12 Rahul Kumar , Sushant G. Ghosh

We study the shadows of the fully non-linear, asymptotically flat Einstein-dilaton-Gauss-Bonnet (EdGB) black holes (BHs), for both static and rotating solutions. We find that, in all cases, these shadows are smaller than for comparable Kerr…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-22 Pedro V. P. Cunha , Carlos A. R. Herdeiro , Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz , Eugen Radu

A black hole casts a shadow as an optical appearance because of its strong gravitational field. We study the shadow cast by the five-dimensional Myers-Perry black hole with equal rotation parameters. We demonstrate that the null geodesic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 Uma Papnoi , Farruh Atamurotov , Sushant G. Ghosh , Bobomurat Ahmedov

We explore the shadow of certain class generalized Kerr black holes, which are non vacuum solutions of the Einstein equations with exotic matter. The images depend on the angular momentum of the compact object, the characteristic parameter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-23 Vassil K. Tinchev

We propose a new method to determine the physical parameters of Kerr black holes (namely, specific angular momentum $a$, inclination angle $i$, and distance $D$ from an observer) only from the shadow's information such as the size and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-20 Kenta Hioki , Umpei Miyamoto

In this paper, we construct the rotating Janis-Newman-Winicour (JNW) naked singularity spacetime using Newman-Janis Algorithm (NJA). We analyse NJA with and without complexification methods and find that the energy conditions do satisfied…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-16 Divyesh N. Solanki , Parth Bambhaniya , Dipanjan Dey , Pankaj S. Joshi , Kamlesh N. Pathak

The M87* black hole shadow observation by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has enabled us to test the modified gravity theories in the extreme-field regime and estimating the black hole parameters. Having this assertion, we investigate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-06 Sushant G. Ghosh , Rahul Kumar Walia

We study shadow aspects of superentropic black holes in four dimensions. Using Hamilton-Jacobi formalism, we first get the null geodesic equations. In the celestial coordinate framework relying on fixed positions of observers, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-27 A. Belhaj , H. Belmahi , M. Benali

We compare shadows cast by Schwarzschild black holes with those produced by two classes of naked singularities that result from gravitational collapse of spherically symmetric matter. The latter models consist of an interior naked…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-31 Rajibul Shaikh , Prashant Kocherlakota , Ramesh Narayan , Pankaj S. Joshi

A detailed analysis is presented of gravitational microlensing by intervening compact objects of the black hole shadows imaged by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). We show how the center, size, and shape of the shadow depend on the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-14 Himanshu Verma , Joseph Silk

We establish a thermodynamic-optical duality that directly bridges the semiclassical quantum evaporation of black holes with their classical macroscopic geometry. By employing a diffeomorphic inversion, we re-parameterize the intrinsic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-27 Nikko John Leo S. Lobos , Emmanuel T. Rodulfo

We have studied the shadows of a circular disformal Kerr black hole with a deformation parameter, which represents a rotating solution within a generalized scalar-tensor framework of Horndeski gravity that characterized by second-order…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-06 Fen Long , Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing

We investigate the observational features of exact vacuum solutions in Brans-Dicke (BD) gravity, focusing on their implications for black hole shadow imaging. Motivated by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observations, we revisit a class…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-17 Prajwal Hassan Puttasiddappa , Davi C Rodrigues , David F Mota

Recently, two of us have argued that non-Kerr black holes in gravity theories different from General Relativity may have a topologically non-trivial event horizon. More precisely, the spatial topology of the horizon of non-rotating and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-04-16 Cosimo Bambi , Francesco Caravelli , Leonardo Modesto

The black hole shadow, first observed by the Event Horizon Telescope in 2017, is the newest method for studying black holes and understanding gravity. Much work has gone into understanding the shadow of a Kerr black hole, including all of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-25 Dimitry Ayzenberg

We investigate the shadow behaviors of the superentropic black holes in arbitrary dimensions. Using the Hamilton-Jacobi mechanism, we first obtain the associated null geodesic equations of motion. By help of a spheric stereographic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-10 A. Belhaj , M. Benali , Y. Hassouni