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The apparent shadow of a black hole provides one of the most direct probes of strong-field general relativity. While the shadow size in asymptotically flat spacetimes is well understood, the influence of cosmic expansion on its apparent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-26 Debarshi Mukherjee

The study of astrophysical phenomena like black hole shadows is an effective approach to properly understand the modified gravity and explore its validity. Motivated by recent astrophysical observations, we consider a black hole (BH) in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-20 Khadije Jafarzade , Zeynab Bazyar , Mubasher Jamil

Shadows cast by the rotating black hole in perfect fluid matter are studied using analytical method. We consider three kinds of matter with standard equation of state in Cosmology: $-1/3$ (dark matter), 0 (dust) and $1/3$ (radiation). The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-31 Zhaoyi Xu , Xian Hou , Jiancheng Wang

We investigate the shadow, deflection angle, and the greybody bounding of a Schwarzschild-AdS/dS black hole in scale-dependent gravity. We used the EHT data to constrain the parameter $\epsilon$. We have found that within the $1\sigma$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-06 Ali Övgün , Reggie C. Pantig , Ángel Rincón

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has significantly advanced our ability to study black holes, achieving unprecedented spatial resolution and revealing horizon-scale structures. Notably, these observations feature a distinctive dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-22 Yifan Chen , Ran Ding , Yuxin Liu , Yosuke Mizuno , Jing Shu , Haiyue Yu , Yanjie Zeng

The observation of the shadows cast by the event horizon of black holes on the light emitted in its neighborhood is the target of current very-long-baseline-interferometric observations. When considering supermassive black holes, the light…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-20 Harrison Gott , Dimitry Ayzenberg , Nicolas Yunes , Anne Lohfink

The recently obtained hairy Kerr black holes, due to additional sources or surrounding fluid, like dark matter, with conserved energy-momentum tensor, have a deviation $\alpha$ and primary hair $l_0$, apart from rotation parameter $a$ and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-01 Misba Afrin , Rahul Kumar , Sushant G. Ghosh

The compact dark objects with very large masses residing at the centres of galaxies are believed to be black holes. Due to the gravitational lensing effect, they would cast a shadow larger than their horizon size over the background, whose…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Lei Huang , Mike Cai , Zhi-Qiang Shen , Feng Yuan

It is widely believed that Sgr A$^*$, located at the center of our Galaxy, is a supermassive black hole. Recent observations of its shadow and long-term monitoring of the S2 star have provided compelling evidence supporting this hypothesis.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-07 Zhen Li

Motivated by the first image of a black hole captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), there has been a surge of research using observations of black hole shadows to test theories of gravity. In this paper, we carry out a study related…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-06 Qi Sun , Yu Zhang , Chen-Hao Xie , Qi-Quan Li

Inspired by the observations of supermassive black hole M87* in \emph{Event Horizon Telescope }(EHT) experiment, a remarkable surge in black hole physics is to use the black hole shadow's observables to distinguish general relativity (GR)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-20 Yuan Meng , Xiao-Mei Kuang , Zi-Yu Tang

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, 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

We investigate unbound dark matter particles in halos by tracing particle trajectories in a simulation run to the far future (a = 100). We find that the traditional sum of kinetic and potential energies is a very poor predictor of which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-26 Peter S. Behroozi , Abraham Loeb , Risa H. Wechsler

In this paper, the shadows cast by Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton-Axion black hole and naked singularity are studied. The shadow of a rotating black hole is found to be a dark zone covered by a deformed circle. For a fixed value of the spin $a$,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-12-03 Shao-Wen Wei , Yu-Xiao Liu

In this paper, we start from a static black hole (BH) immersed in a Deanne-type dark matter (DM) halo and employ the Newman-Janis algorithm (NJA) to generate the rotating black hole solution with a dark matter halo. Also, we have checked…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-29 Uktamjon Uktamov , Sanjar Shaymatov , Bobomurat Ahmedov , Chengxun Yuan

In this paper we study the shadow and quasi-normal modes (QNMs) of a black hole (BH) surrounded by a dark matter halo with Hernquist-type density distribution, which was reported in Ref. \cite{Cardoso:2021wlq}. In astrophysical scenarios,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-09 Xing-Hui Feng , Guang-Yu Zhang

The Event Horizon Telescope has recently provided the first image of the dark shadow around the supermassive black hole M87*. The observation of a highly circular shadow provides strong limits on deviations of M87*'s quadrupole moment from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-24 Sunny Vagnozzi , Luca Visinelli

We investigate constraints on the distribution of dark matter in the neighbourhood of the Galactic centre that may eventually be attained with the high-resolution Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). The shadow of a black hole in vacuum is used…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-08-15 Thomas Lacroix , Joseph Silk

Can we determine a spin parameter of a black hole by observation of a black hole shadow in an accretion disk? In order to answer this question, we make a qualitative analysis and a quantitative analysis of a shape and a position of a black…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-10 Rohta Takahashi