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Recent advances, including gravitational wave detections and imaging of black hole shadows, have strongly validated general relativity. Nevertheless, ongoing cosmological observations suggest potential limitations of general relativity,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-11 Ali Övgün , Mohsen Fathi

We investigate some properties of a black hole in a Horndeski gravity theory mimicking Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) gravity at $D \rightarrow 4$. Borrowing ideas from quasitopological gravities provide a matter source of dyonic fields, in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-06 Yassine Sekhmani , Dhruba Jyoti Gogoi

In this paper, we consider a charged AdS/dS black hole (BH) in $R^{2}$ gravity and study its optical features, including the shadow's geometrical shape and the energy emission rate. Additionally, we look for criteria to restrict the free…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-05 Khadije Jafarzade , Sanjar Shaymatov , Mubasher Jamil

In this study, we have considered the Kerr-like black hole (BH) model in Horndeski gravity and analyse the visual characteristics of shadow images under two illumination models, such as a celestial light source and a thin accretion disk. To…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-09 Xiao-Xiong Zeng , Chen-Yu Yang , M. Israr Aslam , Rabia Saleem

In this paper, an analytic generalization of the weak field deflection angle (WDA) is derived by utilizing the current non-asymptotically flat generalization of the Gauss-Bonnet theorem. The derived formula is valid for any…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-23 Reggie C. Pantig

In the framework of the beyond Horndeski action, we consider three subtheories that support scalarised black-hole solutions, and look for modified characteristics compared to GR. We first study the propagation of massless scalar and vector…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-14 Georgios Antoniou , Thomas D. Pappas , Panagiota Kanti

We study the circular motion of massive and massless particles in a recently proposed quantum-corrected Schwarzschild black hole in loop quantum gravity. This solution is supposed to introduce small but non-zero quantum corrections in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-20 Reza Saadati , Fatimah Shojai

In this article, we study the weak gravitational lensing in the background of regular, static, spherically symmetric black hole solutions of Einstein's standard general relativity coupled with nonlinear electrodynamics. The weak deflection…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-04 Susmita Sarkar , Nayan Sarkar , Hasrat Hussian Shah , Pankaj Balo , Farook Rahaman

We study electrically charged, slowly rotating black hole solutions in Einstein-Bumblebee gravity coupled to the traceless (conformal) ModMax nonlinear electrodynamics. By adopting a quadratic bumblebee potential that fixes the vacuum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-21 Yassine Sekhmani , Wentao Liu , Weike Deng , Kuantay Boshkayev

The main objective of this study is to explore the shadow and polarization patterns of a Kerr-Sen-like BH induced from Bumblebee gravity, which, among other alternative theories of gravity beyond Einstein gravity, stands out as a promising…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-26 Muhammad Israr Aslam , Nazek Alessa , Chen-Yu Yang , Xiao-Xiong Zeng

In our recent study Ref. [1]: Eur. Phys. J. C 81, 501 (2021) , the main goal was to reveal the Lorentz symmetry breaking (LSB) effect in the rotating black holes via the greybody factor and quasinormal mode analyzes. Ding et al. [2]…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-22 Sara Kanzi , İzzet Sakallı

We provide a discussion on a light ray in a charged black hole solution in massive gravity. To serve the purpose, we exploit the optical geometry of the black hole solution and find the Gaussian curvature in weak gravitational lensing.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-06 Sudhaker Upadhyay , Surajit Mandal , Yerlan Myrzakulov , Kairat Myrzakulov

In a recent Letter we have shown that in shift-symmetric Horndeski theory the scalar field is forced to obtain a nontrivial configuration in black hole spacetimes, unless a linear coupling with the Gauss-Bonnet invariant is tuned away. As a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-12 Thomas P. Sotiriou , Shuang-Yong Zhou

In this work, the quasinormal modes of a $5$-D black hole in Einstein Gauss-Bonnet Bumblebee theory of gravity have been investigated with the help of the Pad\'e averaged higher order WKB approximation method and the validity of Hod's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-16 Dhruba Jyoti Gogoi

Poincar\'e Gauge's theory of gravity is the most noteworthy alternative extension of general relativity that has a correspondence between spin and spacetime geometry. In this paper, we use Reissner-Nordstrom-de Sitter and anti-de Sitter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-23 Reggie C. Pantig , Ali Övgün

The bumblebee gravity model includes a class of vector-tensor theories of gravitation where the vector field couples to the Ricci tensor quadratically. We obtain an analytical spherical black-hole solution in this model. The solution has…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-31 Rui Xu

We study a number of well-motivated theories of modified gravity with the common overarching theme that they predict the existence of compact objects such as black holes and wormholes endowed with scalar hair. We compute the shadow radius…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-13 Georgios Antoniou , Alexandros Papageorgiou , Panagiota Kanti

We obtain rotating black hole solutions to the novel 3D Gauss-Bonnet theory of gravity recently proposed. These solutions generalize the BTZ metric and are not of constant curvature. They possess an ergoregion and outer horizon, but do not…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-03 Robie A. Hennigar , David Kubiznak , Robert B. Mann

In this paper, the shadows cast by non-rotating and rotating modified gravity black holes are investigated. In addition to the black hole spin parameter $a$ and the inclination angle $\theta$ of observer, another parameter $\alpha$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-08 Hui-Min Wang , Yu-Meng Xu , Shao-Wen Wei

The direct imaging of black holes by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) enables strong-field tests of gravity. We study the cosmological evolution and the black-hole shadow radius in 4D Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) gravity coupled to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-12 Xiang-Qian Li , Hao-Peng Yan , Xiao-Jun Yue