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In this paper, we investigate the photon regions, shadow, and observational constraints of a Kerr-Newman-like black hole in Bumblebee gravity within a plasma medium. By employing a specific non-homogeneous power-law plasma model to ensure…

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We analyse the formation and evolution of the event horizon of a black hole binary merger when the black holes are charged. We find that the presence of charge influences the properties of the merger and can be useful for investigating the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-20 D. Marín Pina , M. Orselli , D. Pica

The metric of a tidally distorted, nonrotating black hole is presented in a light-cone coordinate system that penetrates the event horizon and possesses a clear geometrical meaning. The metric is expressed as an expansion in powers of r/R…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Eric Poisson

The interaction of a supermassive black hole with the matter of an accretion disk in the presence of a magnetic field is the key mechanism of energy release in active galactic nuclei. However, determining the physical parameters of this…

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Using general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of accreting black holes, we show that a suitable subtraction of the linear polarization per pixel from total intensity images can enhance the photon ring features. We find that the…

Recently, Zakharov et al. (2005) considered the possibility of evaluating the spin parameter and the inclination angle for Kerr black holes in nearby galactic centers by using future advanced astrometrical instruments. A similar approach…

Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-10 A. F. Zakharov , F. De Paolis , G. Ingrosso , A. A. Nucita

This paper explores the properties of black holes using a new model of nonlinear electrodynamics called modified Maxwell (ModMax), in conjunction with nonlinear massive gravity known as dRGT-like massive gravity. We start by deriving the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-11 B. Eslam Panah

In this work, we study metric-Palatini gravity extended by the antisymmetric part of the affine curvature. This gravity theory leads to general relativity plus a geometric Proca field. Using our previous construction of its static…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-08 Elham Ghorani , Samik Mitra , Javlon Rayimbaev , Beyhan Puliçe , Farruh Atamurotov , Ahmadjon Abdujabbarov , Durmuş Demir

The phase transitions of charged Anti-de Sitter (AdS) black holes are characterized by studying null geodesics in the vicinity of the critical curve of photon trajectories around black holes as well as their optical appearance as the black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-04 Chatchai Promsiri , Weerawit Horinouchi , Ekapong Hirunsirisawat

Electromagnetic observations have been used over the past decades to understand the nature of black holes and the material around them. Our ability to learn about the fundamental physics relies on our understanding of two key ingredients in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-24 Alejandro Cardenas-Avendano , Jaxen Godfrey , Nicolas Yunes , Anne Lohfink

Pulsars orbiting around the black hole at our galactic center provide us a unique testing site for gravity. In this work, we propose an approach to probe the gravity around the black hole introducing two phenomenological parameters which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-20 Kengo Iwata , Chul-Moon Yoo

We investigate several holographic properties of charged black holes with $RF^{2}$ corrections, which originate from Kaluza-Klein reductions of five-dimensional Gauss-Bonnet gravity. We obtain the perturbative solution and discuss its…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Rong-Gen Cai , Da-Wei Pang

Metric-affine theories of gravity provide an interesting alternative to General Relativity: in such an approach, the metric and the affine (not necessarily symmetric) connection are independent quantities. Furthermore, the action should…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-11-08 Vincenzo Vitagliano , Thomas P. Sotiriou , Stefano Liberati

We propose a method to determine the mass and spin of primordial black holes (PBHs) in the mass range $5\times 10^7-10^{12}$ kg (Hawking temperatures $\sim10$ MeV $-200$ GeV), based on measuring the energy of specific features in the photon…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-04 Marco Calzà , João G. Rosa

In astronomy, the problem of black holes is arguably second in importance only to the problem of cosmology. A current frontier in black hole research is the measurement of spin. During the past three years, the spins of several stellar-mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-03-10 Jeffrey E. McClintock , Ronald A. Remillard

We systematically study the field equations of $f(\mathbb Q)$ gravity for spherically symmetric and stationary metric-affine spacetimes. Such spacetimes are described by a metric as well as a flat and torsionless affine connection. In the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-02 Fabio D'Ambrosio , Shaun D. B. Fell , Lavinia Heisenberg , Simon Kuhn

We propose a new parametric framework to describe in generic metric theories of gravity the spacetime of spherically symmetric and slowly rotating black holes. In contrast to similar approaches proposed so far, we do not use a Taylor…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-09 Luciano Rezzolla , Alexander Zhidenko

One of the new methods that can be used to study the thermodynamics critical points of a system based on a topological approach is the study of topological charges using Duan's $\phi$-mapping method. In this article, we will attempt to use…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-22 Mohammad Reza Alipour , Mohammad Ali S. Afshar , Saeed Noori Gashti , Jafar Sadeghi

Advances in high angular resolution astronomy make it conceivable that black hole dark matter could be detected via angular deviation effects. Assuming the dark matter in the galaxy is made of solar mass black holes, there is a non-trivial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-08 Leo Stodolsky

Relativistic reflection features are commonly observed in the X-ray spectra of accreting black holes. In the presence of high quality data and with the correct astrophysical model, X-ray reflection spectroscopy can be quite a powerful tool…