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The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is taking the first images of black holes resolved at horizon scales to measure their shadows and probe accretion physics. A promising avenue for testing the hypothesis that astrophysical black holes are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-17 Lia Medeiros , Dimitrios Psaltis , Feryal Özel

Mimetic gravity has gained significant appeal in cosmological contexts, but static spherically symmetric space-times within the baseline theory are highly non-trivial: the two natural solutions are a naked singularity and a black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-07 Mohsen Khodadi , Sunny Vagnozzi , Javad T. Firouzjaee

The hypothesis that classical scalar fields could constitute dark matter on galactic and cosmic scales has garnered significant interest. In scenarios where supermassive black holes (SMBHs) form through the accretion of matter onto black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-31 J. C. Acevedo-Muñoz , F. D. Lora-Clavijo , A. Cruz-Osorio

Recent observations of the supermassive black holes $ M87^{*} $ and Sgr A$^{*}$ by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) have sparked intensified interest in studying the optical appearance of black holes (BHs). Inspired by this, we carry out a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-14 Khadije Jafarzade , Zeynab Bazyar , Sara Saghafi , Kourosh Nozari

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is a project to assemble a Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) network of mm wavelength dishes that can resolve strong field General Relativistic signatures near a supermassive black hole. As planned,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Ru-Sen Lu , Avery E. Broderick , Fabien Baron , John D. Monnier , Vincent L. Fish , Sheperd S. Doeleman , Victor Pankratius

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

First sketch of black hole from M87 galaxy was obtained by Event Horizon Telescope, recently. As appearance of black hole shadow reflects space-time geometry of black holes, observations of black hole shadow may be a promising way to test…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-30 Zhe Chang , Qing-Hua Zhu

Searching for violations of the no-hair theorem (NHT) is a powerful way to test gravity, and more generally fundamental physics, particularly with regards to the existence of additional scalar fields. The first observation of a black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-15 Mohsen Khodadi , Alireza Allahyari , Sunny Vagnozzi , David F. Mota

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a global very long baseline interferometry array operating at millimetre wavelengths, is spatially resolving the immediate environments of black holes for the first time. The current observations of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Ayman Bin Kamruddin , Jason Dexter

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) image of M87* provides a direct test of strong-field gravity, measuring an angular shadow diameter $\theta_{d}=42\pm 3~\mu\mathrm{as}$ and a circularity deviation $\Delta C\leq 0.1$. Such observations allow…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-13 Kourosh Nozari , Milad Hajebrahimi , Sara Saghafi , G. Mustafa , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration recently unveiled the first image of the supermassive black hole M87*, which exhibited a ring of angular diameter $\theta_{d}=42 \pm 3 \mu as$, a circularity deviation $\Delta C \leq 0.1$, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-17 Misba Afrin , Sushant G. Ghosh

The resolution of photon rings of Sgr~A$^*$ and M87 is the next milestone of upcoming EHT-like interferometries. We extend the formalism developed in our previous work~\cite{Verma:2023hes} to constrain primordial black hole (PBH) dark…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-24 Himanshu Verma , Priyanka Sarmah , Joseph Silk , Kingman Cheung

The study of black hole (BH) shadows provide crucial insights into the nature of strong gravitational effects and the intricate structure of the spacetime surrounding BHs. In this paper, we explore the shadow of Kerr MOG BH within a plasma…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-30 Saira Yasmin , Khadije Jafarzade , Mubasher Jamil

For static black holes in Einstein gravity, if matter fields satisfy a few general conditions, we conjecture that three characteristic parameters about the spatial size of black holes, namely the outermost photon sphere area…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-20 Run-Qiu Yang , H. Lu

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

More than two years ago the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration presented the first image reconstruction around the shadow for the supermassive black hole in M87*. It gives an opportunity to evaluate the shadow size. Recently, the Event…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-08 Alexander F. Zakharov

We study synchrotron polarization in spatially resolved horizon-scale images, such as those produced by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). In both general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations as well as simplified models of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-29 George N. Wong , Andrew Chael , Alexandru Lupsasca , Eliot Quataert

The images of supermassive black holes surrounded by optically-thin, radiatively-inefficient accretion flows, like those observed with the Event Horizon Telescope, are characterized by a bright ring of emission surrounding the black-hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-01 Ziri Younsi , Dimitrios Psaltis , Feryal Özel

The image of the emission surrounding the black hole in the center of the Milky Way is predicted to exhibit the imprint of general relativistic (GR) effects, including the existence of a shadow feature and a photon ring of diameter ~50…

We study the black hole's shadow for Schwarzschild - de Sitter and Kerr - de Sitter metrics with the contribution of the cosmological constant \Lambda. Based on the reported parameters of the M87* black hole shadow we obtain constraints for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-29 A. Stepanian , Sh. Khlghatyan , V. G. Gurzadyan