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Starting from the first law of black hole thermodynamics, we establish an explicit correspondence between the corrected entropy and the metric function under the condition of fixed black hole energy and horizon position. Using the corrected…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-14 Fang Liu , Yu-Bo Ma , Yun-Zhi Du , Huai-Fan Li

Space-based next-generation interferometers propose to measure the Lyapunov exponents of the nearly bound geodesics that comprise the photon ring surrounding the black hole M87*. We argue that these classical Lyapunov exponents equal the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-19 Shahar Hadar , Daniel Kapec , Alexandru Lupsasca , Andrew Strominger

This paper investigates the optical appearance of a Schwarzschild-like black hole (BH) surrounded by a Dehnen-(1, 4, 5/2) type dark matter (DM) halo, with a focus on how the DM halo's density $\rho_{s}$ and radius $r_{s}$ influence the BH's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-17 Zuting Luo , Meirong Tang , Zhaoyi Xu

Using the AdS/CFT correspondence, this paper investigates the holographic images of a charged black hole within the context of Lorentz symmetry breaking massive gravity. The photon rings, luminosity-deformed rings, or light points from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-20 Xiao-Xiong Zeng , Li-Fang Li , Pan Li , Bo Liang , Peng Xu

When a thin-film ring with supercurrent is irradiated by coherent microwave field, the field induces coherent oscillations of all the Cooper pairs involved in the supercurrent. The oscillating charged condensate will emit photons with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-07-09 Alexander Agafonov

The global monopole solutions which give rise to quite unusual physical phenomena have captured considerable attention. In this paper, we study the Einstein ring of the spherically symmetric AdS black hole solution with a global monopole…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-21 Xiao-Xiong Zeng , Li-Fang Li , Peng Xu

We consider a particular Bardeen black hole in 2+1-dimensions. The black hole is sourced by a radial electric field in non-linear electrodynamics (NED). The solution is obtained anew by the alternative Hamiltonian formalism. For…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-16 S. Habib Mazharimousavi , M. Halilsoy

The relativistically-broadened reflection spectrum, observed in both AGN and X-ray binaries, has proven to be a powerful probe of the properties of black holes and the environments in which they reside. Being emitted from the inner-most…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-28 Corbin Taylor , Christopher S. Reynolds

Interferometers, such as the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), do not directly observe the images of sources but rather measure their Fourier components at discrete spatial frequencies up to a maximum value set by the longest baseline in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-15 Dimitrios Psaltis , Lia Medeiros , Tod R. Lauer , Chi-Kwan Chan , Feryal Ozel

Shaping single-mode operation in high-power fibres requires a precise knowledge of the gain-medium optical properties. This requires accurate measurements of the refractive index differences ($\Delta$n) between the core and the cladding of…

It is believed that rays bent inside and outside photon spheres could affect partially the black hole shadow images by the Event Horizon Telescope and the rays near photon spheres would be detected by near-future space observations. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-11 Naoki Tsukamoto

A distinct visual signature occurs in black holes that are surrounded by optically thin and geometrically thick emission regions. This signature is a sharp-edged dip in brightness that is coincident with the black-hole shadow, which is the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-03 Thomas Bronzwaer , Heino Falcke

The Hong-Ou-Mandel effect provides a mechanism to determine the distinguishability of a photon pair by measuring the bunching rates of two photons interfering at a beam splitter. Of particular interest is the distinguishability in time,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-28 Hannah Scott , Dominic Branford , Niclas Westerberg , Jonathan Leach , Erik M. Gauger

Distinguishing the photon output of an accreting supermassive black hole binary system from that of a single supermassive black hole accreting at the same rate is intrinsically difficult because the majority of the light emerges from near…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-17 Julian H. Krolik , Marta Volonteri , Yohan Dubois , Julien Devriendt

We consider long-slit emission-line spectra of galactic nuclei when the slit is wider than the instrumental PSF, and the target has large velocity gradients. The finite width of the slit generates complex distributions of brightness at a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Witold Maciejewski , James Binney

An analytical model of a thick asymmetric Gaussian ring is presented for which the visibility function is calculated in two perpendicular directions for baselines up to 6 of the Earth's diameter.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-18 S. V. Chernov

The photon sphere, a hypersurface of null circular geodesics, plays a fundamental role in characterizing black hole spacetimes, influencing phenomena such as black hole shadows, gravitational lensing, and quasinormal modes. In this work, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-28 Yong Song , Jiaqi Fu , Yiting Cen

We use coherence theory to explain why it is necessary to modify the conventional setup of a Michelson interferometer to obtain Haidinger rings with an extended source of white light. The modification consists of introducing a glass slide…

Optics · Physics 2021-07-07 Youssef El Azhari , Sa{ī}d Tagmouti

We study observational signatures of nonsingular ultracompact objects regularized by nonlinear electrodynamics. The phenomenon of birefringence causes photons of different polarizations to propagate with respect to two distinct metrics,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-12 Sebastian Murk , Ioannis Soranidis

Photons emitted by light sources in the neighbourhood of a black hole can wind several times around it before fleeing towards the observer. For spherically symmetric black holes, two infinite sequences of images are created for any given…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-27 F. Aratore , V. Bozza