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In this paper, we investigate the holographic descriptions of two kinds of black rings, the neutral doubly rotating black ring and the dipole charged black ring. For generic nonextremal black rings, the information of holographic CFT duals,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-04-10 Bin Chen , Jia-ju Zhang

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 obtain the shadow cast induced by the rotating black hole with an anisotropic matter. A Killing tensor representing the hidden symmetry is derived explicitly. The existence of separability structure implies a complete integrability of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-24 Bum-Hoon Lee , Wonwoo Lee , Yun Soo Myung

We investigated the shadows and thin accretion disks of Einstein-Maxwell-Scalar (EMS) black hole. Firstly, we investigated the influence of EMS parameters on the black hole shadow using the null geodesic method and constrained these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-03 Yingdong Wu , Ziqiang Cai , Zhenglong Ban , Haiyuan Feng , Wei-Qiang Chen

Our understanding of space and time is probed to its depths by black holes. These objects, which appear as a natural consequence of general relativity, provide a powerful analytical tool able to examine macroscopic and microscopic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Jean-Pierre Luminet

Retrolensing is a gravitational lensing effect in which light emitted by a background source is deflected by a black hole and redirected toward the observer after undergoing nearly complete loops around the black hole. In this context, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-12 L. C. N. Santos , F. M. da Silva , C. R. Muniz , V. B. Bezerra

We consider a static, axially symmetric spacetime describing the superposition of a Schwarzschild black hole (BH) with a thin and heavy accretion disk. The BH-disk configuration is a solution of the Einstein field equations within the Weyl…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-17 Pedro V. P. Cunha , Nelson A. Eiró , Carlos A. R. Herdeiro , José P. S. Lemos

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

In this paper, by taking the accretions into account, the observational shadows and rings casted by the Brane-world black hole are numerically investigated when the observer located at the cosmological horizon. The results here show that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-10 Xiao-Xiong Zeng , Ke-Jian He , Guo-Ping Li

Black holes are thought to describe the geometry of massive, dark compact objects in the universe. To further support and quantify this long-held belief requires knowledge of possible, if exotic alternatives. Here, we wish to understand how…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-02 Vitor Cardoso , Caio F. B. Macedo , Kei-ichi Maeda , Hirotada Okawa

In this paper, we study the shadow and images of the accretion disk of Kerr-Newman (KN) black hole (BH) in modified gravity (MOG) theory by using backward ray-tracing method. And, the influence of spin parameter ($a$), charge ($Q$), and MOG…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-07 He-Bin Zheng , Meng-Qi Wu , Guo-Ping Li , Qing-Quan Jiang

We remind that the ring down features observed in the LIGO GWs resulted from trembling of photon spheres (Rp=3M) of newly formed compact objects and not from the trembling of their event horizons (R=2M). Further, the tentative evidences for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-10 A. Mitra , C. Corda , H. J. Mosquera Cuesta

Taking the quantum electrodynamics (QED) effect into account, we investigate the geometrical-optics appearance of the Euler-Heisenberg (EH) black hole (BH) under the different accretion flows context, which depends on the BH space-time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-14 Xiao-Xiong Zeng , Ke-Jian He , Guo-Ping Li , En-Wei Liang , Sen Guo

We study the optical appearance of a thin accretion disk around a Schwarzschild black hole pierced by a cosmic string with a semi-analytic method of Luminet [11]. Direct and secondary images with different parameters observed by a distant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-12 Changqing Liu , Li Tang , Jiliang Jing

Using the Hamilton-Jacobi method, we study certain optical shadows of rotating Bardeen-AdS black holes in the presence of internal and external field contributions. Precisely, we examine the shadow using one-dimensional real curves. By…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-13 Adil Belhaj , Hajar Belmahi , Mohamed Benali , Hasan El Moumni , Mohammed Amine Essebani , Moulay Brahim Sedra

We study the formation of black holes by spherical domain wall collapse as seen by an asymptotic observer, using the functional Schrodinger formalism. To explore what signals such observers will see, we study radiation of a scalar quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Tanmay Vachaspati , Dejan Stojkovic , Lawrence M. Krauss

The observational appearance of a black hole is critically dependent on the surrounding accreting matter, in particular on the central brightness depression and photon ring structure. We perform a systematic comparative analysis of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-21 Yuxuan Shi , Hongbo Cheng

Using backwards ray tracing, we study the shadows of Kerr black holes with scalar hair (KBHsSH). KBHsSH interpolate continuously between Kerr BHs and boson stars (BSs), so we start by investigating the lensing of light due to BSs. Moving…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-25 Pedro V. P. Cunha , Carlos A. R. Herdeiro , Eugen Radu , Helgi F. Runarsson

An analytical model of a parabolic screen illuminating a black hole is proposed. This allows to avoid naturally the appearance of edge effects associated with photons moving along the plane of the screen. The temperature distribution along…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-17 Elena V. Mikheeva , Serge Repin , Vladimir N. Lukash

Strong self-gravitational fields enable the realization of macroscopic odd-parity quantum objects. Using ray-tracing methods, we systematically analyze the dynamics of photons and the shadow features of rotating black holes with parity-odd…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-14 Yang Huang , Dao-Jun Liu , Hongsheng Zhang