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We study the light rings and shadows of an uniparametric family of spherically symmetric geometries interpolating between the Schwarzschild solution, a regular black hole, and a traversable wormhole, and dubbed as black bounces, all of them…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-25 Merce Guerrero , Gonzalo J. Olmo , Diego Rubiera-Garcia , Diego Sáez-Chillón Gómez

We investigate the effects of quintessence dark energy on the shadows of black hole, surrounded by various profiles of accretions. For the thin disk accretion, the images of the black hole comprises the dark region and bright region,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-02 Xiao-Xiong Zeng , Hai-Qing Zhang

This study investigates the optical appearance of rotating scalarized Kerr-Newman black holes in the Einstein-Maxwell-scalar theory with exponential coupling. By analyzing equatorial null geodesics, these black holes are classified into six…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-14 Yiqian Chen , Li Li , Peng Wang

This paper investigates the optical appearance of a Schwarzschild-like black hole (BH) surrounded by a Dehnen-(1, 4, 5/2) type dark matter (DM) halo, with a focus on how the DM halo's density $\rho_{s}$ and radius $r_{s}$ influence the BH's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-17 Zuting Luo , Meirong Tang , Zhaoyi Xu

A black hole casts a shadow as an optical appearance because of its strong gravitational field. We study the shadow cast by the five-dimensional Myers-Perry black hole with equal rotation parameters. We demonstrate that the null geodesic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 Uma Papnoi , Farruh Atamurotov , Sushant G. Ghosh , Bobomurat Ahmedov

Thanks for the releasing image of supermassive black holes (BHs) by the event horizon telescope (EHT) at the heart of the $M87$ galaxy. After the discovery of this mysterious object, scientists paid attention to exploring the BH shadow…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-01 Xiao-Xiong Zeng , M. Israr Aslam , Rabia Saleem

It has been reported that the photon ring structure in black hole images produces strong and universal interferometric signatures on long interferometric baselines, holding promise for measuring black hole parameters and testing general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-05 Yiqian Chen , Peng Wang , Haitang Yang

In this work, we investigate observable signatures of a magnetically charged Anti-de Sitter black hole in string-inspired Euler-Heisenberg theory. We analyze photon trajectories, the photon sphere, and the resulting black hole shadow. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-23 Faizuddin Ahmed , Mohsen Fathi , Ahmad Al-Badawi

The accretion around the black hole plays a pivotal role in the theoretical analysis of black hole shadow, and of the black hole observation in particular. In this paper, we mainly study the shadow and observation characteristics of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-26 Xiao-Xiong Zeng , Guo-Ping Li , Ke-Jian He

What does a black hole look like? In 1+3 spacetime dimensions, the optical appearance of a black hole is a bidimensional region in the observer's sky often called the black hole shadow, as supported by the EHT observations. In higher…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-10 João P. A. Novo , Pedro V. P. Cunha , Carlos A. R. Herdeiro

We compute the shadows of colliding black holes using the Kastor-Traschen cosmological multiblack hole solution that is an exact solution describing the collision of maximally charged black holes with a positive cosmological constant. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-10-20 Daisuke Nitta , Takeshi Chiba , Naoshi Sugiyama

Black holes are by definition black, and therefore cannot be directly observed by using electromagnetic radiations. Convincing identification of black holes must necessarily depend on the identification of a very specially behaving matter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Sandip K. Chakrabarti

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

In this paper, we employ a ray-tracing algorithm to simulate the shadows of three equal-mass black holes in static equilibrium across a wide parameter space. We find that the shadows consist of a larger primary shadow and several distorted,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-19 Dan Li , Yuxiang Zuo , Shiyang Hu , Chen Deng , Yu Wang , Wenfu Cao

Two seemingly distinct notions regarding black holes have captured the imagination of theoretical physicists over the past decade: First, black holes are conjectured to be fast scramblers of information, a notion that is further supported…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-23 Krishan Saraswat , Niayesh Afshordi

We argue that the appearance of additional light rings in a shadow observation - beyond the infinite sequence of exponentially demagnified self-similar rings foreseen in the Kerr solution - would make a compelling case for the existence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-20 Gonzalo J. Olmo , Diego Rubiera-Garcia , Diego Sáez-Chillón Gómez

The optical appearance of the numerically black hole solutions within the higher derivative gravity illuminated by an accretion disk context is discussed. We obtain solutions for non-Schwarzschild black holes with r0 = 1, r0 = 2, and r0 =…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-04 Yu-Hao Cui , Sen Guo , Yu-Xiang Huang , Yu Liang , Kai Lin

In this paper, we explore the effect of non-linear electrodynamics (NLED) parameters and magnetic charges on various aspects of black holes, like how they bend light, how they emit radiation, and how they appear as a shadow by considering a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-11 Akhil Uniyal , Sayan Chakrabarti , Reggie C. Pantig , Ali Övgün

Gravitational lensing and black hole shadows are one of the strongest observational evidences to prove the existence of black holes in the universe. The gravitational lensing arises due to the deflection of light by the gravitational field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-09 Shubham Kala , Saurabh , Hemwati Nandan , Prateek Sharma

Recently, two types of static black hole models that retain general covariance have been proposed within the Hamiltonian constraint approach to effective quantum gravity (EQG). We have studied the light rings and shadows of these black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-08 Wentao Liu , Di Wu , Jieci Wang