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We study the influence of the cosmic expansion on the size of the shadow of a spinning black hole observed by a comoving observer. We first consider that the expansion is driven by a cosmological constant only and build the connection…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-29 Peng-Cheng Li , Minyong Guo , Bin Chen

This work investigates observational properties, namely the shadow and photon ring structure, of emission profiles originating near compact objects. In particular, we consider a distorted and deformed compact object characterised by two…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-16 Shokoufe Faraji , João Luís Rosa

We study the shadow of the rotating black hole with quintessential energy i) in vacuum and ii) in the presence of plasma with radial power-law density. For vacuum case the quintessential field parameter of the rotating black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-18 Ahmadjon Abdujabbarov , Bobir Toshmatov , Zdeněk Stuchlík , Bobomurat Ahmedov

The visible universe is filled with different types of plasma media in the form of stars, nebulas and other forms of excited gases. These matter fields have a high influence on the gravity and are likely to be present around the black holes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-13 Muhammad Ali Raza , M. Zubair , Eiman Maqsood

The null geodesics of the regular and rotating magnetically charged black hole in a non-minimally coupled Einstein-Yang-Mills theory surrounded by a plasma medium is studied. The effect of magnetic charge and Yang-Mills parameter on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-25 Shubham Kala , Hemwati Nandan , Prateek Sharma

In this article, we provide a review of the current state of the research of the black hole shadow, focusing on analytical (as opposed to numerical and observational) studies. We start with particular attention to the definition of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-27 Volker Perlick , Oleg Yu. Tsupko

We consider light propagation in a non-magnetized pressureless plasma around a Kerr black hole. We find the necessary and sufficient condition the plasma electron density has to satisfy to guarantee that the Hamilton-Jacobi equation for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-16 Volker Perlick , Oleg Yu. Tsupko

Exploring the influence of plasma on the light rays trajectories in the vicinity of black holes is significat since that astrophysical black holes are generally surrounded by a plasma medium. In this work, we analyze the null geodesics in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-27 Malihe Heydari-Fard , Mohaddese Heydari-Fard

A black hole casts a shadow as an optical appearance because of its strong gravitational field. We study how to determine the spin parameter and the inclination angle by observing the apparent shape of the shadow, which is distorted mainly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-08-05 Kenta Hioki , Kei-ichi Maeda

In this paper, we study the effect of the presence of plasma and different accretion models on the shadow and optical appearance of static spherically symmetric black holes containing the Kalb-Ramond field. We derive the motion equations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-23 Mou Xu , Ruonan Li , Jianbo Lu , Shining Yang , Shu-Min Wu

We investigate the propagation of light through a plasma on a background Kerr spacetime via a Hamiltonian formulation. The behaviour of light when propagating through a vacuum and through a plasma is not the same; the convolution of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-06 Tom Kimpson , Kinwah Wu , Silvia Zane

Astrophysical black holes are usually surrounded by an accretion disk. At least parts of these accretion disks consist of a plasma in which light rays with different energies are dispersed. However, we usually do not know the exact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-21 Torben C. Frost

In the paper we discuss propagation of light around Kerr black hole surrounded by non-magnetized cold plasma with infinite conductivity. For that purpose, we use equations for propagation of light rays obtained within Synge's approach in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-13 Matej Sárený , Vladimír Balek

We have studied the null geodesics in the background of the Kerr-Newman black hole veiled by a plasma medium using the Hamilton-Jacobi method. The in uence of black hole's charge and plasma parameters on the effective potential and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-10 Gulmina Zaman Babar , Abdullah Zaman Babar , Farruh Atamurotov

Black hole shadows and photon spheres offer valuable tools for investigating black hole properties. Recent observations by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration have confirmed the existence of rotating black holes. Black hole parameters…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-26 Vitalii Vertogradov , Ali Övgün , Reggie C. Pantig

The Event Horizon Telescope collaboration has revealed the first direct image of a black hole, as per the shadow of a Kerr black hole of general relativity. However, other Kerr-like rotating black holes of modified gravity theories cannot…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-21 Misba Afrin , Sushant G. Ghosh

We study the photon's motion around a black hole in the presence of a plasma whose density is a function of the radius coordinate by a renewed ray-tracing algorithm and investigate the influence of the plasma on the shadow of the black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-18 Yang Huang , Yi-Ping Dong , Dao-Jun Liu

The detailed study of the strong gravitational lensing of a Kerr black hole within Quantum Einstein Gravity (QEG) is performed. We calculate the photon sphere, the deflection angle of light, and observables on the equatorial plane under the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-09 Chen-Hao Xie , Yu Zhang , Bo-Li Liu , Peng-Fei Duan , Yu-Li Lou

The influence of the medium on the gravitational deflection of light rays is widely discussed in literature for the simplest non-trivial case: cold non-magnetized plasma. In this article, we generalize these studies to the case of an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-19 Oleg Yu. Tsupko

In this paper, optical properties of renormalization group improved (RGI) Schwarzschild black hole (BH) are investigated in plasma medium. Starting from the equations of motions in plasma medium, we have shown how the shadow radius of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-01 Farruh Atamurotov , Mubasher Jamil , Kimet Jusufi