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Cuspy shadow was first reported for hairy rotating black holes, whose metrics deviate significantly from the Kerr one. The non-smooth edge of the shadow is attributed to a transition between different branches of unstable but bounded…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-16 Wei-Liang Qian , Songbai Chen , Cheng-Gang Shao , Bin Wang , Rui-Hong Yue

We study the black hole's shadow for Schwarzschild - de Sitter and Kerr - de Sitter metrics with the contribution of the cosmological constant \Lambda. Based on the reported parameters of the M87* black hole shadow we obtain constraints for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-29 A. Stepanian , Sh. Khlghatyan , V. G. Gurzadyan

We explore the universal symmetries of the black hole photon ring in a wide range of non-Kerr spacetimes, including the Kerr-Newman, Kerr-Sen, Kerr-Bardeen, and Kerr-Hayward metrics. The demagnification exponent ($\gamma$) controls the size…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-27 Rahul Kumar Walia , Prashant Kocherlakota , Dominic O. Chang , Kiana Salehi

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

This work investigates the optical properties of a static, spherically symmetric, electrically charged black hole in f(R) gravity coupled to Euler-Heisenberg(EH) nonlinear electrodynamics(NLED). By analyzing photon trajectories in this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-16 Khadije Jafarzade , Saira Yasmin , Mubasher Jamil

Photon circular orbits, an extreme case of light deflection, are among the hallmarks of black holes and are known to play a central role in a variety of phenomena related to these extreme objects. The very existence of such orbits when…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-06-28 Kostas Glampedakis , George Pappas

We study the equivalence principle, regarded as the cornerstone of general relativity, by analyzing the deformation observable of black hole shadows. Such deformation can arise from new physics and may be expressed as a phenomenological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-22 Chunlong Li , Sheng-Feng Yan , Lingqin Xue , Xin Ren , Yi-Fu Cai , Damien A. Easson , Ye-Fei Yuan , Hongsheng Zhao

Recently a sequence of inequalities relating the black hole horizon, photon sphere, shadow were proposed for spherically symmetric and static black holes, providing the upper bound for given mass. In this paper, we extend the discussion to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-15 Xing-Hui Feng , H. Lu

We have studied the shadows of a circular disformal Kerr black hole with a deformation parameter, which represents a rotating solution within a generalized scalar-tensor framework of Horndeski gravity that characterized by second-order…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-06 Fen Long , Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing

Black holes (BH) are objects described by General Relativity (GR), particularly by the Kerr solution. However, this solution is based on simplifying assumptions. To achieve a more realistic approach, we investigate the impact of deviations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-22 F. Agurto-Sepulveda , J. H Lagunas , J. Pedreros , B. Bandyopadhyay , D. R. G Schleicher

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 recent detection of gravitational waves from black hole coalescences and the first image of the black hole shadow enhance the possibilities of testing gravitational theories in the strong-field regime. In this paper, we study the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-27 Che-Yu Chen

Circular photon orbit and black hole shadow are significantly important issues in physics and astronomy, and a number of breakthroughs have been witnessed in recent years. Conventionally, the stable and unstable circular photon orbits are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-12 Chen-Kai Qiao , Ming Li

We consider necessary and sufficient conditions for photons emitted from the vicinity of a Kerr black hole horizon to escape to infinity. The radial equation of motion determines necessary conditions for photons to reach infinity, and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-02 Kota Ogasawara , Takahisa Igata

Motivated by the first image of a black hole captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), there has been a surge of research using observations of black hole shadows to test theories of gravity. In this paper, we carry out a study related…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-06 Qi Sun , Yu Zhang , Chen-Hao Xie , Qi-Quan Li

In this paper, we investigate so-called spherical photon orbits around a deformed Kerr black hole with an extra deformation parameter. The change in the azimuth $\Delta\varphi$ and the angle of dragging of nodes per revolution $\Delta\Omega…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-29 Changqing Liu , Chikun Ding , Jiliang Jing

We present a detailed study of higher-order photon rings of an accreting Kerr naked singularity (KNS) with dimensionless spin parameter $a=1.01$; i.e., a horizonless, overly spinning compact object. Motivated by horizon-scale…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-27 Hina Suzuki , Yosuke Mizuno , Akhil Uniyal , Indu Kalpa Dihingia , Tintin Nguyen , Chi-kwan Chan

We investigate thick accretion structures around Kerr black holes in a swirling background. This stationary and axisymmetric spacetime is composed of a rotating black hole, which is immersed in a rotating background. The swirling background…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-03 Kristian Gjorgjieski , Rogério Capobianco

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

For a model of the electromagnetic field coupled to Weyl tensor, Maxwell equations are modified and photons at low frequencies no longer propagate along light cone. If we detect a black hole using these photons, some difficulties appear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-01 Jiliang Jing , Songbai Chen , Qiyuan Pan , Jieci Wang