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The first images of the black holes in Sagittarius A* and M87* have created a wide range of new scientific opportunities in gravitational physics, compact objects, and relativistic astrophysics. We discuss here the scientific opportunities…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-07 The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

This study investigates the visual characteristics of a rotating black hole (BH) within the fabric of $4$D Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity illuminated with two illumination models, such as a celestial light sphere and a thin accretion disk.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-22 Muhammad Israr Aslam , Manahil Ali , Abdul Malik Sultan , Xiao-Xiong Zeng , Sultan Hussain

The evolution of the cosmological perturbations is studied in the context of the Randall-Sundrum brane world scenario, in which our universe is realized on a three-brane in the five dimensional Anti-de Sitter(AdS) spacetime. We develop a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Kazuya Koyama , Jiro Soda

The initial data of gravity for a cylindrical matter distribution confined on the brane is studied in the framework of the single brane Randall-Sundrum scenario. In this scenario, 5-dimensional aspect of gravity appears in the short range…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Ken-ichi Nakao , Kouji Nakamura , Takashi Mishima

The existence of black hole shadows is one of the most interesting effects of the strong field regime of general relativity (GR). Recent observations by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) have provided high-resolution images of the vicinity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-29 Jose R. Nascimento , Ana R. M. Oliveira , Albert Yu. Petrov , Paulo J. Porfírio , Amilcar R. Queiroz

We study the scalar perturbations of rotating black holes in framework of extra dimensions type Randall-Sundrum(RS).

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Jeferson de Oliveira , Carlos Eduardo Pellicer de Oliveira

We apply Wilczek and his collaborators' anomaly cancellation approach to the 3-dimensional Schwarzschild- and BTZ-like brane world black holes induced by the generalized C metrics in the Randall-Sundrum scenario. Based on the fact that the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-12-25 Chao-Guang Huang , Jia-Rui Sun , Xiaoning Wu , Hai-Qing Zhang

In this work we study the spectral dimensionality of spacetime around a radiating Schwarzschild black hole using a recently introduced formalism of quantum gravity, where the alterations of the gravitational field produced by the radiation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-07 Mauricio Bellini , Juan Ignacio Musmarra , Pablo Alejandro Sanchez , Alan Sebastian Morales

Upcoming VLBI observations will resolve nearby supermassive black holes, most notably Sagittarius A* and M87, on event horizon-scales. Recent observations of Sagittarius A* with the Event Horizon Telescope have revealed horizon-scale…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-15 Ziri Younsi , Oliver Porth , Yosuke Mizuno , Christian M. Fromm , Hector Olivares

Analytic form has been obtained for four-dimensional black holes with a minimal Hawking temperature in a theory with cosmological constant, dilaton and gauge fields. In general dimensions, black hole solutions are shown to exist and their…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-02-13 Mingxing Luo , Sibo Zheng

In a previous paper we determined the near horizon limit of an extremal brane world black hole, charged with respect to a Maxwell field on the brane, in the single brane Randall-Sundrum model. This paper is largely an extension of that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-25 Alexander Kaus

This dissertation aims at studying the braneworld models in the context proposed by Randall and Sundrum. The focus is on the spin-0 perturbations in the Kerr space-time as a 4-dimensional braneworld. The work deals the main aspects of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Jeferson de Oliveira

Black holes have turned into cosmic laboratories to search for ultra-light scalars by virtue of the superradiant instability. In this paper we present a detailed study of the impact of the superradiant evolution on the black hole shadow and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-03 Gastón Creci , Stefan Vandoren , Helvi Witek

This work is devoted to investigate some consequences of black holes physics beyond the domain of general relativity, mainly in effective extra dimensional models. The investigation is carried along three gravitational effects, namely the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-28 Rogerio Teixeira Cavalcanti

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a global very long baseline interferometry array operating at millimetre wavelengths, is spatially resolving the immediate environments of black holes for the first time. The current observations of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Ayman Bin Kamruddin , Jason Dexter

In order for spacetimes with static extra dimensions to have 4-dimensional de Sitter expansion they must have at least positive curvature, warping sourced by the 4-d expansion, or violate the null energy condition everywhere in the extra…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-28 Saurya Das , S. Shajidul Haque , Bret Underwood

In braneworld gravity models with a finite AdS curvature in the extra dimension, the AdS/CFT correspondence leads to a prediction for the lifetime of astrophysical black holes that is significantly smaller than the Hubble time, for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Dimitrios Psaltis

We briefly review some recent advances in the study of the shadows of rotating black holes in alternative theories. The size and the shape of the shadow depend on the mass and the angular momentum, and they can also depend on other…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-21 Leonardo Amarilla , Ernesto F. Eiroa

The advent of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a millimeter-wave very-long baseline interferometric array, has enabled spatially-resolved studies of the sub-horizon-scale structure for a handful of supermassive black holes. Among these,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-03-05 Avery E. Broderick , Tim Johannsen , Abraham Loeb , Dimitrios Psaltis

The recently released images of the supermassive black holes in the M87 galaxy and the galaxy of our own make probing black hole spacetimes and testing general relativity (GR) possible. The violation of equatorial reflection symmetry of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-04 Che-Yu Chen