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We investigate the shadow properties in a recently proposed geometry of a rotating wormhole under realistic astrophysical conditions, particularly in the presence of a cold and non magnetized plasma environment surrounding the wormhole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-16 Pabitra Gayen , Ratna Koley

In this work, we have studied the behavior of null geodesics within a rotating wormhole space-time in non-magnetized pressure-less plasma. By focusing on the dispersion relation of the plasma and disregarding its direct gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-21 Saurabh Kumar , Akhil Uniyal , Sayan Chakrabarti

We study the influence of the plasma environment on the shadows of stationary axisymmetric wormholes. We consider a sample of several wormhole solutions and plasma distributions for which the Hamilton-Jacobi equation for the light rays is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-16 Tsanimir Angelov , Rasim Bekir , Galin Gyulchev , Petya Nedkova , Stoytcho Yazadjiev

We have studied photon motion around axially symmetric rotating Kerr black hole in the presence of plasma with radial power-law density. It is shown that in the presence of plasma the observed shape and size of shadow changes depending on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-21 Farruh Atamurotov , Bobomurat Ahmedov , Ahmadjon Abdujabbarov

We explore the structure of shadow for a Kerr-de Sitter black hole with a non-magnetized, pressureless plasma surrounding it. Specific plasma distributions are considered to separate the Hamilton-Jacobi equation and find the photon regions.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-16 Abhishek Chowdhuri , Arpan Bhattacharyya

Investigations of shadows of astrophysical entities constitute a major source of insight into the evolution of compact objects. Such effects depend on the nature of the compact object and arise on account of the strong gravitational lensing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-21 Muhammed Amir , Kimet Jusufi , Ayan Banerjee , Sudan Hansraj

Plasma, as a medium around the black hole for light propagation, is known to visibly alter the shape of its shadow and the observables, which could impact the interpretation of the Event Horizon Telescope results. In this study, we examine…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-13 Connor McMillin , Zhichen Guan , Owen Gartlan , Lotus Liu , Leo Rodriguez , Shanshan Rodriguez

In this work, we study the shadow of Kerr black hole surrounded by an axisymmetric plasma, whose density takes a Gaussian distribution in the polar direction. Along the radial direction, we consider two models: in model A the density of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-01 Zhenyu Zhang , Haopeng Yan , Minyong Guo , Bin Chen

To approach a more reliable observational signature of a high-spin Kerr black hole, one should take into account the effects of its surroundings. To this end we study in this paper the influence of a surrounding plasma. We consider its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-08 Haopeng Yan

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

We explore the shadow of certain class of rotating traversable wormholes within classical general relativity. The images depend on the angular momentum of the wormhole, and the inclination angle of the observer. We compare the results with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-16 Petya G. Nedkova , Vassil Tinchev , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

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

We analytically calculate the influence of a plasma on the shadow of a black hole (or of another compact object). We restrict to spherically symmetric and static situations, where the shadow is circular. The plasma is assumed to be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-18 Volker Perlick , Oleg Yu. Tsupko , Gennady S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan

In this paper, light propagation in a pressure-free non-magnetized plasma on Kerr spacetime is considered, which is a continuation of our previous study [Phys. Rev. D 95, 104003 (2017)]. It is assumed throughout that the plasma density is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-20 Volker Perlick , Oleg Yu. Tsupko

We obtain the deflection angle for a boosted Kerr black hole in the weak field approximation. We also study the behavior of light in the presence of plasma by considering different distributions: singular isothermal sphere, non-singular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-03 Carlos A. Benavides-Gallego , A. A. Abdujabbarov , Cosimo Bambi

The black hole shadow, a direct probe of the event horizon's gravitational influence, has been observationally confirmed by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). While theoretical models of shadows in vacuum are mature, real astrophysical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-20 Sai Karan Mukthapuram , Sandeep Kumar Kataria

Considering a Kerr black hole surrounded by the homogenous unmagnetised plasma medium, we study the strong gravitational lensing on the equatorial plane of the Kerr black hole. We find that the presence of the uniform plasma increases the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-11 Changqing Liu , Chikun Ding , Jiliang Jing

In this work, we obtain the deflection angle for a boosted Kerr black hole in the weak field approximation using the optics in a curved spacetime developed by J.L. Synge in 1960. We study the behavior of light in the presence of plasma by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-24 Carlos A. Benavides-Gallego , Ahmadjon Abdujabbarov

This paper investigates gravitational lensing effects in the presence of plasma in the strong deflection limit, which corresponds to light rays circling around a compact object and forming higher-order images. While previous studies of this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-26 Fabiano Feleppa , Valerio Bozza , Oleg Yu. Tsupko

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
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