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We investigate particle motion in regular and asymptotically flat black hole spacetimes supported by Dehnen-type dark-matter halos. Two analytic models are analyzed, allowing a systematic study of circular geodesics, photon-sphere…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-25 Bekir Can Lütfüoğlu

Astrophysical black holes are embedded in surrounding dark and baryonic matter that can measurably perturb the spacetime. We construct a self-consistent spacetime describing a slowly rotating black hole embedded in an external matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-12 Sayak Datta , Chiranjeeb Singha

We have studied the surface geometry and shadows of Schwarzschild black hole with a halo containing the quadrupolar and octopolar terms. We found the quadrupole term makes the Schwarzschild black hole prolate for the quadrupole strength…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-09 Mingzhi Wang , Guanghai Guo , Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing

This paper primarily investigates the optical characteristics of two minimal Schwarzschild black hole deformations, the Kazakov-Solodukhin and Ghosh-Kumar black holes, under different accretion models. The event horizon, photon sphere, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-15 Hong-Er Gong , Junlin Qin , Yusen Wang , Bofeng Wu , Zhan-Feng Mai , Sen Guo , Enwei Liang

The existence of black hole shadows is one of the most interesting effects of the strong field regime of general relativity (GR). Recent observations by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) have provided high-resolution images of the vicinity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-29 Jose R. Nascimento , Ana R. M. Oliveira , Albert Yu. Petrov , Paulo J. Porfírio , Amilcar R. Queiroz

Constructing spacetime solutions that describe black holes embedded in dark matter environments is a crucial step toward probing the properties of dark matter in the strong-field regime of gravity. At present, however, there is no unique or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-18 Gabriel Gomez

Spin-induced quadrupole moments provide an important characterization of compact objects, such as black holes, neutron stars and black hole mimickers inspired by additional fields and/or modified theories of gravity. Black holes in general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-29 Zhenwei Lyu , Michael LaHaye , Huan Yang , Béatrice Bonga

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

The projection effect of an anisotropic accretion disk causes its electromagnetic radiation to depend on the emission angle. Although this dependency has the potential to influence the observational characteristics of black holes, it has…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-10 Dan Li , Shiyang Hu , Chen Deng , Xin Wu

In this work, we study the optical properties of a class of magnetically charged rotating black hole spacetimes. The black holes in question are assumed to be immersed in the quintessence field, and subsequently, the resulting black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-15 Chengxiang Sun , Yunqi Liu , Wei-Liang Qian , Ruihong Yue

The motion of photons around black holes determines the shape of shadow and match the ringdown properties of a perturbed black hole. Observations of shadows and ringdown waveforms will reveal the nature of black holes. In this paper, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-29 Song Li , Ahmadjon A. Abdujabbarov , Wen-Biao Han

In this paper, the shadows cast by non-rotating and rotating modified gravity black holes are investigated. In addition to the black hole spin parameter $a$ and the inclination angle $\theta$ of observer, another parameter $\alpha$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-08 Hui-Min Wang , Yu-Meng Xu , Shao-Wen Wei

Using the Hamilton-Jacobi method, we study certain optical shadows of rotating Bardeen-AdS black holes in the presence of internal and external field contributions. Precisely, we examine the shadow using one-dimensional real curves. By…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-13 Adil Belhaj , Hajar Belmahi , Mohamed Benali , Hasan El Moumni , Mohammed Amine Essebani , Moulay Brahim Sedra

We investigate quasinormal modes, shadow observables, weak gravitational lensing, and neutrino--antineutrino annihilation for a static, spherically symmetric black hole that carries a nonlinear-electrodynamics magnetic charge and is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-27 Ali Ovgun , Reggie C. Pantig , Joel Saavedra

We have studied the shadow and its luminosity for a static and regular phantom compact object under the static spherical accretion and the infalling spherical accretion, respectively. Comparing with the usual Schwarzschild black hole, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-10 Xin Qin , Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing

We investigate the temperature, photon and shadow radii, quasinormal modes (QNMs), time domain profiles, greybody factors, emission rates and topological characteristics of deformed black holes, focusing on the effects of the deformation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-26 Dhruba Jyoti Gogoi , Jyatsnasree Bora , Filip Studnička , H. Hassanabadi

We use a series of cosmological N-body simulations for a flat LCDM cosmology to investigate the properties of dark matter haloes in the mass range 3.0e9-3.0e13 Msun. These properties include the concentration parameter (c), the spin…

In this paper, we discuss optical properties of the topologically charged rotating black hole. We study the horizon, the photon region, the shadow of the black hole and other observables. The results show that in addition to the black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-09 Hao-Ran Zhang , Peng-Zhang He , Lei-Shao , Yuan Chen , Xian-Ru Hu

We investigate the shadow, timelike geodesic structure, radiation properties of thin accretion disks, and optical appearance of a static spherically symmetric regular black hole, constructed based on the Dehnen-type density profile. Using…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-24 Tianyou Ren , Jing-Ya Zhao , Xiaomei Liu , Rong-Jia Yang

The shadows of black holes encode significant information about the properties of black holes and the spacetime surrounding them. So far, the effects of dispersive media, such as plasma, and relativistic aberration on the propagation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-21 Gastón Briozzo , Emanuel Gallo , Thomas Mädler