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We present firstly the equation of motion for the photon coupled to a special bumblebee vector field in a Kerr black hole spacetime and find that the propagation of light depends on its polarization due to the birefringence phenomenon. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-30 Songbai Chen , Mingzhi Wang , Jiliang Jing

A compact object illuminated by background radiation produces a dark silhouette. The edge of the silhouette or shadow (alternatively, the apparent boundary or the critical curve) is commonly determined by the presence of the photon sphere…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-09 Parth Bambhaniya , Saurabh , Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino

Here we provide shadow images of a Kerr-like black hole (BH) in cold dark matter (CDM) halo illuminated with a celestial light source and a thin accretion disk. The impact of spin parameter, critical density and the scale radius on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-13 Xiao-Xiong Zeng , Chen-Yu Yang , M. Israr Aslam , Rabia Saleem , Sadia Aslam

Real astronomical objects possess spin, yet deriving exact solutions for rotating black holes within gravitational theories is a formidable challenge. To understand the shadow of rotating black holes in Lorentz-violating spacetimes induced…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-04 Wentao Liu , Di Wu , Jieci Wang

Explicitly covariant analytical expressions are derived that describe the boundaries of shadows cast by massive particles scattered by a gravitating object. This covers scenarios with particles having effectively variable mass, such as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-15 Kirill Kobialko , Igor Bogush , Dmitri Gal'tsov

Very-long baseline interferometric observations have resolved structure on scales of only a few Schwarzschild radii around the supermassive black holes at the centers of our Galaxy and M87. In the near future, such observations are expected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Tim Johannsen

We study the shadow of rotating charge black holes in the presence of quintessence. The shadow of a rotating black hole is a distorted circle and in our study, we find that the shape and size of the black hole shadow depend upon four…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-05 Balendra Pratap Singh

We examine the shadow cast by a Kerr black hole pierced by a cosmic string. The observable images depend not only on the black hole spin parameter and the angle of inclination, but also on the deficit angle yielded by the cosmic string. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-17 Vassil K. Tinchev , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

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

This study explores spherically symmetric non-linear electrodynamics black holes and their effects on light propagation. We derive the governing metric, revealing radial coordinate dynamics within the event horizon. We analyze photon…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-06 Akhil Uniyal , Sayan Chakrabarti , Mohsen Fathi , Ali Övgün

The Kerr black holes possess a photon region with prograde and retrograde orbits radii, respectively, $M\leq r_p^-\leq 3M$ and $3M\leq r_p^+\leq 4M$, and thereby always cast a closed photon ring or a shadow silhouette for $a\leq M$. For…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-25 Rahul Kumar , Sushant G. Ghosh

We present firstly equation of motion for the photon coupled to Weyl tensor in a Kerr black hole spacetime and then study further the corresponding strong gravitational lensing. We find that black hole rotation makes propagation of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-19 Songbai Chen , Shangyun Wang , Yang Huang , Jiliang Jing , Shiliang Wang

We present the shape of the black hole shadow on the standard background screen as it is registered by the distant observer. The screen is an infinite plane, emitting the quanta uniformly distributed to a hemisphere. The source of emission…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-14 Serge V. Repin , Dmitry A. Kompaneets , Igor D. Novikov , Valeriya A. Mityagina

Black holes with dyonic charges in Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton-axion supergravity theory are revisited in the context of black hole shadows. We consider static as well as rotating (namely the dyonic Kerr-Sen) black holes. The matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-08 Soumya Jana , Sayan Kar

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

Since the full General Theory of Relativity has been unveiled to the scientific community in 1915, many solutions to the vacuum Einstein field equations have been found and studied. This paper aims at documenting exhaustively the derivation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-18 Onur Uçanok

We investigate whether photon ring observations in black hole imaging are able to distinguish between the Kerr black hole in general relativity and alternative black holes that deviate from Kerr. Certain aspects of photon rings have been…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-28 Seppe Staelens , Daniel R. Mayerson , Fabio Bacchini , Bart Ripperda , Lorenzo Küchler

We consider a black hole mimicker given by an exact solution of the stationary and axially symmetric field equations in vacuum known as the $\delta$-Kerr metric. We study its optical properties based on a ray-tracing code for photon motion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-25 Song Li , Temurbek Mirzaev , Ahmadjon A. Abdujabbarov , Daniele Malafarina , Bobomurat Ahmedov , Wen-Biao Han

This paper investigates photon motion in black hole of Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton theory, exploring black hole shadows and observational characteristics under various accretion models. We first give the relation of the event horizon, photon…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-16 Junlin Qin , Hong-Er Gong , Yusen Wang , Zhan-Feng Mai , Bofeng Wu , Sen Guo , Enwei Liang

One of the most important and actual issues in relativistic astrophysics is testing gravity theories and obtaining constraint values for the parameters of black holes using observational data. In this research, we aimed to explore the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-14 Saeed Ullah Khan , Javlon Rayimbaev , Furkat Sarikulov , Ozodbek Abdurakhmonov