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Black holes in General Relativity are described by space-time metrics that are simpler in comparison to non-vacuum compact objects. However, given the universality of the gravitational pull, it is expected that dark matter accumulates…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-23 Caio F. B. Macedo , João Luís Rosa , Diego Rubiera-Garcia

We have studied numerically the shadows of Bonnor black dihole through the technique of backward ray-tracing. The presence of magnetic dipole yields non-integrable photon motion, which affects sharply the shadow of the compact object. Our…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-04 Mingzhi Wang , Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing

We have studied the shadow of a disformal Kerr black hole with an extra deformation parameter, which belongs to non-stealth rotating solutions in quadratic Degenerate Higher Order Scalar Tensor (DHOST) theory. Our result show that the size…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-29 Fen Long , Songbai Chen , Mingzhi Wang , Jiliang Jing

In this paper, we investigate the shadow and optical appearance of the hairy Kerr black hole illuminated by a thin accretion disk, the materials of which outside the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) move on the equatorial circular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-07 Yuan Meng , Xi-Jing Wang , Yong-Zhuang Li , Xiao-Mei Kuang

We study the optical appearance of a de Sitter-Schwarzschild black hole and its distinguishability from a Schwarzschild black hole. By exploring various accretion models and emission profiles, we investigate the impact of different…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-27 Zi-Liang Wang

Simulated images of a black hole surrounded by optically thin emission typically display two main features: a central brightness depression and a narrow, bright "photon ring" consisting of strongly lensed images superposed on top of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-08 Andrew Chael , Michael D. Johnson , Alexandru Lupsasca

We investigate the light deflection and the shadow characteristics of a non-minimally coupled Horndeski black hole surrounded by a magnetized, cold, pressureless plasma medium, while considering both homogeneous and non-homogeneous plasma…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-24 Shubham Kala , Jaswinder Singh

A hairy Schwarzschild black hole describes the deformation of Schwarzschild black hole due to including additional sources. It is found that depending on the hairy parameters, the photons' configurations around this black hole can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-26 Yuan Meng , Xiao-Mei Kuang , Xi-Jing Wang , Bin Wang , Jian-Pin Wu

In this paper, we introduce a new approach to study the behavior of the photon sphere and shadow radius. Our method uses extended gravitational decoupling and reveals two important analytic results. First, the additional matter field alters…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-04 Vitalii Vertogradov , Ali Övgün

We have investigated the characteristics of shadows cast by the Kerr black hole in the presence of plasma and compared them to those of a rotating wormhole in a uniform plasma space-time for an observer at infinity. Interestingly, for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-03 Saurabh Kumar , Akhil Uniyal , Sayan Chakrabarti

Can the observation of the "shadow" allow us to distinguish a black hole from a more exotic compact object? We study the motion of photons in a class of vacuum static axially-symmetric space-times that is continuously linked to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-12 Askar B. Abdikamalov , Ahmadjon A. Abdujabbarov , Dimitry Ayzenberg , Daniele Malafarina , Cosimo Bambi , Bobomurat Ahmedov

We study the possibility of identifying dark matter in the galactic center from the physical properties of the electromagnetic radiation emitted from a optical-thin disk region around a static and spherically symmetric black hole. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-03 Saurabh , Kimet Jusufi

We have investigated the shadow of a Konoplya-Zhidenko rotating non-Kerr black hole with an extra deformation parameter. The spacetime structure arising from the deformed parameter affects sharply the black hole shadow. With the increase of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-01 Mingzhi Wang , Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing

A significant fraction of debris discs consist of a bright ring beyond which extends a wide halo. Such a halo should be made of small grains produced in the ring of parent bodies (PB) and pushed on high-e orbits by radiation pressure. It…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-05 Philippe Thebault , Johan Olofsson , Quentin Kral

Motivated by recent work on the Modified Maxwell (ModMax) black holes [Phys.Lett.B 10.1016/j.physletb.2020.136011], which are invariant in duality rotations and conformal transformations founded in [ Phys.Rev.D 10.1103/PhysRevD.102.121703],…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-23 Reggie C. Pantig , Leonardo Mastrototaro , Gaetano Lambiase , Ali Övgün

Motivated by recent Event Horizon Telescope findings, we investigate constrained optics of rotating black holes in Einstein-Maxwell-scalar gravity theory. Precisely, we mainly study the parameter effects on two relevant optical concepts…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-19 Hajar Belmahi

We study the effects of emission geometry on the capability to constrain black hole parameters from measurements of the shadow and inner-shadow of a Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole. We investigate the capability to constrain mass, charge,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-17 Julien A. Kearns , Dominic O. Chang , Daniel C. M. Palumbo , Shane W. Davis

The presence of a quintessence-like field can influence the black hole shadow through three primary mechanisms: the dynamics of accretion flows, the trajectories of photons, and the motion of observers. Unlike standard shadow analyses that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-13 Ji-Wen Li , Zi-Liang Wang , Tao-Tao Sui

We study the impact of different fluid matter scenarios on the shadow of black holes (BH) and on frequencies of quasinormal modes (QNM) for a black hole subjected to scalar perturbations, with a comparison to the standard Kerr. The analysis…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-10 Reza Pourkhodabakhshi , Jorge G. Russo

In this study, we investigate the impact of dark matter on the structure and deformation of magnetars. We assume a perturbative approach for the magnetic field deformation and that the dark matter only interacts gravitationally with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-24 Asit karan , Anil Kumar , Monika Sinha , Ritam Mallick