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The recent observation of the shadow of the supermassive black hole M87*, located at the centre of the M87 galaxy, by the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration has opened up a new window to probe the strong gravity regime. In this letter,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-12 Indrani Banerjee , Sumanta Chakraborty , Soumitra SenGupta

We study the shadow behaviors of five dimensional (5D) black holes embedded in type IIB superstring/supergravity inspired spacetimes by considering solutions with and without rotations. Geometrical properties as shapes and sizes are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-23 A. Belhaj , H. Belmahi , M. Benali , W. El Hadri , H. El Moumni , E. Torrente-Lujan

The holographic interpretation of the Randall-Sundrum model based on the adaptation of the AdS/CFT correspondence to the braneworld scenario states that the black holes localized on the brane are {\it quantum corrected}. This can be better…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-20 Ramit Dey , Sumanta Chakraborty , Niayesh Afshordi

The presence of a photon region around the black hole is an essential feature in receiving the emitted spectrum from the vicinity of the black hole by the distant observer. In this paper, we investigate the optical properties of rotating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-26 Balendra Pratap Singh , Md Sabir Ali , Sushant~G. ~Ghosh

We review the quantum field theory description of Hawking radiation from evaporating black holes and summarize what is known about Hawking radiation from black holes in more than four space-time dimensions. In the context of the Large Extra…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-07 Panagiota Kanti , Elizabeth Winstanley

Black hole (BH) shadow observations and gravitational wave astronomy have become crucial approaches for exploring BH physics and testing gravitational theories in extreme environments. This paper investigates the charged black hole with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-16 Lai Zhao , Meirong Tang , Zhaoyi Xu

We analyse the cosmology of a brane world model where a single brane carrying the standard model fields forms the boundary of a 5-dimensional AdS bulk (the Randall-Sundrum II scenario). We focus on the thermal radiation of bulk gravitons,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Hebecker , J. March-Russell

To comprehend the shadow of a black hole in a general spacetime, we have investigated the concept of the maximal black room (MBR). The boundary of the MBR is a non-spacelike hypersurface that contains at least one null geodesic tangent to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-16 Masaru Siino

To test the strong-gravity regime in Randall-Sundrum braneworlds, we consider black holes bound to a brane. In a previous paper, we studied numerical solutions of localized black holes whose horizon radii are smaller than the AdS curvature…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Hideaki Kudoh

The Event Horizon Telescope, a global submillimeter wavelength very long baseline interferometry array, produced the first image of supermassive black hole M87* showing a ring of diameter $\theta_d= 42\pm 3\,\mu$as, inferred a black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-18 Rahul Kumar , Amit Kumar , Sushant G. Ghosh

The apparent shadow of a black hole provides one of the most direct probes of strong-field general relativity. While the shadow size in asymptotically flat spacetimes is well understood, the influence of cosmic expansion on its apparent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-26 Debarshi Mukherjee

We extend some solutions for black holes in the Randall-Sundrum theory with a single brane. We consider a generalised version of the extremal black hole on the brane in n + 1 dimensions and determine an asymptotic value of the geometry for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-27 Michael Meiers , Luke Bovard , Robert Mann

With the recent release of the black hole image of Sgr A* alongside the earlier image of M87*, one can achieve an in-depth understanding of gravitational physics at the horizon scale. According to the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-06 Khadije Jafarzade , Seyed Hossein Hendi , Mubasher Jamil , Sebastian Bahamonde

It is technically difficult (if not impossible) to write down and solve self-consistently the semiclassical Einstein equations in the case of evaporating black holes. These difficulties can in principle be overcome in an apparently very…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Alessandro Fabbri

Combined with the observation of M87*, shadow has gradually became a promising test of the black hole nature. Recently, EHT collaboration gave new constraints on the shadow size at 68\% confidence levels. In this work, we consider the new…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-06 Shao-Wen Wei , Yuan-Chuan Zou

Recently, the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration has reported the first image of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius in the Galactic Center. We attempt to test the validity of the no-hair theorem of black holes using this new shadow…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-18 Deng Wang

In this study, we delve into the observational implications of rotating Loop Quantum Black Holes (LQBHs) within an astrophysical framework. We employ semi-analytical General Relativistic Radiative Transfer (GRRT) computations to study the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-29 Hong-Xuan Jiang , Cheng Liu , Indu K. Dihingia , Yosuke Mizuno , Haiguang Xu , Tao Zhu , Qiang Wu

We investigate the shadow, deflection angle, and the greybody bounding of a Schwarzschild-AdS/dS black hole in scale-dependent gravity. We used the EHT data to constrain the parameter $\epsilon$. We have found that within the $1\sigma$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-06 Ali Övgün , Reggie C. Pantig , Ángel Rincón

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has provided a new tool for testing the strong-field regime of gravity by imaging the shadows of M87* and Sgr A*. These observations provide the first real opportunity to test whether quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-29 Heena Ali , Sushant G. Ghosh

We develop a fully numerical framework to compute and visualize the \emph{hypershadow}\cite{Novo:2024wyn}, the three-dimensional generalization of the black hole shadow in five-dimensional spacetimes. Our method is based on backward ray…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-06 Jianzhi Yang