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In this study, we have considered the Kerr-like black hole (BH) model in Horndeski gravity and analyse the visual characteristics of shadow images under two illumination models, such as a celestial light source and a thin accretion disk. To…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-09 Xiao-Xiong Zeng , Chen-Yu Yang , M. Israr Aslam , Rabia Saleem

The accretion around the black hole plays a pivotal role in the theoretical analysis of black hole shadow, and of the black hole observation in particular. In this paper, we mainly study the shadow and observation characteristics of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-26 Xiao-Xiong Zeng , Guo-Ping Li , Ke-Jian He

We investigated the shadows and optical appearances of a new type of regular black holes (BHs) with a Minkowski core under various spherical accretion scenarios. These BHs are constructed by modifying the Newtonian potential based on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-08 Yi Xiong , Jin Pu , Yi Ling , Guo-Ping Li , Gao-Ming Deng

We examine the gravitational lensing signatures of a Hayward-like regular black hole and its potential observational distinction from a Schwarzschild black hole. In the weak-field limit, the deflection angle includes a small positive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-17 Chen-Hung Hsiao , Limei Yuan , Yidun Wan

Regular black holes are crucially important as approaches to solving the singularity problem, and in this paper, the accretion disk of Bardeen and Hayward models have been studied. For this purpose, we calculated the physical properties of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-07 Amin Rezaei Akbarieh , Minou Khoshragbaf , Mohammad Atazadeh

This study investigates the astronomical implications of the Ghosh-Kumar rotating Black Hole (BH), particularly its behaviour on shadow images, illuminated by celestial light sources and equatorial thin accretion disks. Our research…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-19 Chen-Yu Yang , M. Israr Aslam , Xiao-Xiong Zeng , Rabia Saleem

In this paper, by exploring the photon motion in the region near the Bardeen black hole, the shadow and observation properties of the black hole surrounded by various accretion models are studied. We analyzed the changes in shadow imaging…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-17 Ke-Jian He , Sen Guo , Shuang-Cheng Tan , Guo-Ping Li

Black hole accretion flows can be divided into two broad classes: cold and hot. Cold accretion flows, which consist of cool optically thick gas, are found at relatively high mass accretion rates. Prominent examples are the standard thin…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Feng Yuan , Ramesh Narayan

The image of a black hole (BH) consists of direct and secondary images that depend on the observer position. We investigate the optical appearance of a Schwarzschild BH in the context of a string cloud to reveal how the BH's observable…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-02 Sen Guo , Yu-Xiang Huang , Guo-Ping Li

Recently, the image of a Schwarzschild black hole with an accretion disk has been revisited, and it showed that the "photon ring", defined as highly bent light rays that intersect the disk plane more than twice, is extremely narrow and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-25 Qingyu Gan , Peng Wang , Houwen Wu , Haitang Yang

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

We consider a static, axially symmetric spacetime describing the superposition of a Schwarzschild black hole (BH) with a thin and heavy accretion disk. The BH-disk configuration is a solution of the Einstein field equations within the Weyl…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-17 Pedro V. P. Cunha , Nelson A. Eiró , Carlos A. R. Herdeiro , José P. S. Lemos

We investigate the luminosity of the accretion disk for a static black hole surrounded by dark matter with anisotropic pressure. We calculate all basic orbital parameters of test particles in the accretion disk, such as angular velocity,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-01 Kuantay Boshkayev , Roberto Giambò , Talgar Konysbayev , Ergali Kurmanov , Orlando Luongo , Daniele Malafarina , Hernando Quevedo

Accretion disks around stellar-mass black holes (BHs) emit radiation peaking in the soft X-rays when the source is in the thermal state. The emerging photons are polarized and, for symmetry reasons, the polarization integrated over the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-11 Roberto Taverna , Wenda Zhang , Michal Dovčiak , Stefano Bianchi , Michal Bursa , Vladimir Karas , Giorgio Matt

This paper investigates the observational appearances of an inner extremal regular black hole(IERBH) illuminated by various types of accretion models. The study reveals that when the BH is illuminated by specific accretion flows, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-31 Dan Zhang , Guoyang Fu , Xi-Jing Wang , Qiyuan Pan , Xiao-Mei Kuang , Jian-Pin Wu

We derive the luminosity-temperature relation for the super-critically accreting black holes (BHs) and compare it to the data on ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs). At super-Eddington accretion rates, an outflow forms within the…

We present the results of our studies on accretion disks in the proximity of astrophysical black holes. These disks can be of varying degrees of opacity, geometrical shapes, sizes, and volumes. The central compact object is a Schwarzschild…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-27 Leela Elpida Koutsantoniou

We investigate the behaviour of the accretion discs in the outbursts of the low-mass black-hole X-ray binaries (BHXRB), an overview of which we have presented previously. Almost all of the systems in which there are sufficient observations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Robert Dunn , Rob Fender , Elmar Koerding , Tomaso Belloni , Andrea Merloni

We describe the methodology and compute the illumination of geometrically thin accretion disks around black holes of arbitrary spin parameter $a$ exposed to the radiation of a point-like, isotropic source at arbitrary height above the disk…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-19 Keigo Fukumura , Demosthenes Kazanas

Outflows are inevitably driven from the disk if the vertical component of the black hole (BH) gravity cannot resist the radiation force. We derive the mass loss rate in the outflows by solving a dynamical equation for the vertical gas…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-21 Xinwu Cao , Wei-Min Gu