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Dark matter halos can develop a density spike, e.g., around a galactic supermassive black hole, with the profile $\rho \propto r^{-\gamma_{\rm sp}}$ determined both by the galaxy's formation history and the microphysics of dark matter. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-07 Avinash Tiwari , Prolay Chanda , Shasvath J. Kapadia , Susmita Adhikari , Aditya Vijaykumar , Basudeb Dasgupta

Black hole dynamics suggests that dark matter would re-distribute near a supermassive black hole to form a density spike. However, no direct evidence of dark matter density spike around a supermassive black hole has been identified. In this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-30 Man Ho Chan , Chak Man Lee

We find a Kerr-like black hole solution-a rotating Bumblebee black hole (RBBH) with a Lorentz-violating parameter $\ell$ and examine the strong lensing by it. The parameter $\ell$ changes the event horizon radius and photon sphere,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-03 Arun Kumar , Shafqat Ul Islam , Sushant G. Ghosh

In this paper, we investigate Schwarzschild-like black holes within the framework of metric-affine bumblebee gravity. We explore the implications of such a gravitational setup on various astrophysical phenomena, including the presence of an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-09 G. Lambiase , L. Mastrototaro , Reggie C. Pantig , Ali Ovgun

The abundance of dark matter in the actual universe motivates us to construct the black hole spacetime enveloped by dark matter. In this paper, we derive a new spherically symmetric black hole surrounded by the pseudo-isothermal dark matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-29 Yi Yang , Dong Liu , Ali Övgün , Gaetano Lambiase , Zheng-Wen Long

It has been suggested for a long time that dark matter would form a density spike around a black hole. However, no promising evidence has been observed so far to verify this theoretical suggestion. Here, we report the existence of a dark…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-08 Man Ho Chan , Chak Man Lee

Dark matter annihilation is proportional to the square of the density and is especially efficient in places of highest concentration of dark matter, such as dark matter spikes. The spikes are formed as a result of contraction of the dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-27 Alexander Belikov , Joseph Silk

Future ground-based gravitational wave observatories will be ideal probes of the environments surrounding black holes with masses $1 - 10\,\mathrm{M_\odot}$. Binary black hole mergers with mass ratios of order $q=m_2/m_1\lesssim10^{-3}$ can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-19 Philippa S. Cole , Adam Coogan , Bradley J. Kavanagh , Gianfranco Bertone

A general covariant Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet Gravity in Four-Dimensional (4D EGB) spacetime is shown to bypass Lovelock's theorem and is free from Ostrogradsky instability. Meanwhile, the bumblebee theory is a vector-tensor theory. It extends…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-11 Misba Afrin , Sushant G. Ghosh , Anzhong Wang

We study the effect of baryonic matter and apparent dark matter on black hole shadow in Verlinde's Emergent Gravity. To do so, we consider different baryonic mass profiles and an optically-thin disk region described by a gas in a radial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-26 Kimet Jusufi , Saurabh

Testing Lorentz symmetry in strong gravitational fields provides a promising probe of extensions to general relativity. The supermassive black hole Sgr~A* and the orbit of the S-stars offer a laboratory for such tests in a regime beyond…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-11 Qi Qi , Yu Sang , Xiao-Mei Kuang

The NANOGrav, PPTA, EPTA, CPTA and MPTA collaborations have reported compelling evidence for the existence of the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background (SGWB). This inferred background's amplitude and frequency spectrum align closely…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-08 Zhao-Qiang Shen , Guan-Wen Yuan , Yi-Ying Wang , Yuan-Zhu Wang , Yin-Jie Li , Yi-Zhong Fan

We study the greybody factors, quasinormal modes, and shadow of the higher dimensional de-Sitter (dS)/ anti de-Sitter (AdS) black hole spacetimes derived from the Einstein-bumblebee gravity theory within the Lorentz symmetry breaking (LSB)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-09 Akhil Uniyal , Sara Kanzi , İzzet Sakallı

Annihilation radiation from supersymmetric particles at the Galactic center could be greatly enhanced if the dark matter density is peaked around the supermassive black hole. Arguments for and against the existence of density spikes are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 David Merritt

The physical properties and optical appearance of a thin accretion disk surrounding a Schwarzschild-like black hole (BH) are investigated within the framework of bumblebee gravity. To understand how the Lorentz symmetry breaking (LSB)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-30 Ziqiang Cai , Zhenglong Ban , Lu Wang , Haiyuan Feng , Zheng-Wen Long

In theories where the Lorentz symmetry of gravity is spontaneously broken, a non-minimally coupled bumblebee vector field acquires a nonzero vacuum expectation value, leading to modifications of standard General Relativity (GR). In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-11 Faizuddin Ahmed , Shubham Kala , Ahmad Al-Badawi

In this paper we present a new black hole solution surrounded by dark matter halo in the galactic center using the mass model of M87 and that coming from the Universal Rotation Curve (URC) dark matter profile representing family of spiral…

General Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Kimet Jusufi , Mubasher Jamil , Paolo Salucci , Tao Zhu , Sumarna Haroon

The distribution of dark matter at the galactic center, crucial for indirect searches, remains uncertain. In particular, in the vicinity of the massive black hole in the center of a galaxy where indirect signals may be stronger, the density…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-01 Zi-Chang Zhang , Hai-Chao Yuan , Yong Tang

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

In this paper, we study the particle dynamics, shadow, and optical appearance of charged black holes (BHs) in bumblebee gravity. Firstly, we find that the Lorentz-violation parameter l and charge parameter Q have opposite effects on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-03 Mou Xu , Jianbo Lu , Ruonan Li , Yu Liu , Shu-Min Wu