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Non-commutative black holes(NCBH), due to the non-commutativity of spacetime coordinates, lead to a modification of the spacetime metric. By replacing the Dirac delta function with a Gaussian distribution, the mass is effectively smeared,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-06 Mohammad Ali S. Afshar , Jafar Sadeghi

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

We propose a new parametric framework to describe in generic metric theories of gravity the spacetime of spherically symmetric and slowly rotating black holes. In contrast to similar approaches proposed so far, we do not use a Taylor…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-09 Luciano Rezzolla , Alexander Zhidenko

The study of shadows of static and rotating black holes immersed in various dark matter halo profiles has gained significant attention in recent years. In this paper, we consider the static black hole solution immersed in three dark matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-19 Malihe Heydari-Fard , Mohaddese Heydari-Fard

A black hole casts a shadow as an optical appearance because of its strong gravitational field. We study how to determine the spin parameter and the inclination angle by observing the apparent shape of the shadow, which is distorted mainly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-08-05 Kenta Hioki , Kei-ichi Maeda

The detailed study of the strong gravitational lensing of a Kerr black hole within Quantum Einstein Gravity (QEG) is performed. We calculate the photon sphere, the deflection angle of light, and observables on the equatorial plane under the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-09 Chen-Hao Xie , Yu Zhang , Bo-Li Liu , Peng-Fei Duan , Yu-Li Lou

In this paper, we investigate the photon regions, shadow, and observational constraints of a Kerr-Newman-like black hole in Bumblebee gravity within a plasma medium. By employing a specific non-homogeneous power-law plasma model to ensure…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-28 Jian-Peng Zhang , Yu Zhang , Li Han

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

Ultralight dark photons predicted in several Standard Model extensions can trigger the superradiant instability around rotating black holes if their Compton wavelength is comparable to the Blackhole radius. Consequently, the angular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-02 Diptimoy Ghosh , Divya Sachdeva

This study explores spherically symmetric non-linear electrodynamics black holes and their effects on light propagation. We derive the governing metric, revealing radial coordinate dynamics within the event horizon. We analyze photon…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-06 Akhil Uniyal , Sayan Chakrabarti , Mohsen Fathi , Ali Övgün

We set out to bridge the gap between regular black-hole spacetimes and observations of a black-hole shadow by the Event Horizon Telescope. We explore modifications of spinning and non-spinning black-hole spacetimes inspired by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-06-19 Aaron Held , Roman Gold , Astrid Eichhorn

Gravitational waves from the explosive merger of distant black holes are encoded with details regarding the complex extreme-gravity spacetime present at their source. Famously described by the Kerr spacetime metric for rotating black holes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-29 Zack Carson , Kent Yagi

We have studied the shadows of a circular disformal Kerr black hole with a deformation parameter, which represents a rotating solution within a generalized scalar-tensor framework of Horndeski gravity that characterized by second-order…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-06 Fen Long , Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing

The 2017 Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observations of the central source in M87 have led to the first measurement of the size of a black-hole shadow. This observation offers a new and clean gravitational test of the black-hole metric in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-05 Dimitrios Psaltis , Lia Medeiros , Pierre Christian , Feryal Ozel , Kazunori Akiyama , Antxon Alberdi , Walter Alef , Keiichi Asada , Rebecca Azulay , David Ball , Mislav Balokovic , John Barrett , Dan Bintley , Lindy Blackburn , Wilfred Boland , Geoffrey C. Bower , Michael Bremer , Christiaan D. Brinkerink , Roger Brissenden , Silke Britzen , Dominique Broguiere , Thomas Bronzwaer , Do-Young Byun , John E. Carlstrom , Andrew Chael , Chi-kwan Chan , Shami Chatterjee , Koushik Chatterjee , Ming-Tang Chen , Yongjun Chen , Ilje Cho , John E. Conway , James M. Cordes , Geoffrey B. Crew , Yuzhu Cui , Jordy Davelaar , Mariafelicia De Laurentis , Roger Deane , Jessica Dempsey , Gregory Desvignes , Jason Dexter , Ralph P. Eatough , Heino Falcke , Vincent L. Fish , Ed Fomalont , Raquel Fraga-Encinas , Per Friberg , Christian M. Fromm , Charles F. Gammie , Roberto García , Olivier Gentaz , Ciriaco Goddi , Jose L. Gomez , Minfeng Gu , Mark Gurwell , Kazuhiro Hada , Ronald Hesper , Luis C. Ho , Paul Ho , Mareki Honma , Chih-Wei L. Huang , Lei Huang , David H. Hughes , Makoto Inoue , Sara Issaoun , David J. James , Buell T. Jannuzi , Michael Janssen , Wu Jiang , Alejandra Jimenez-Rosales , Michael D. Johnson , Svetlana Jorstad , Taehyun Jung , Mansour Karami , Ramesh Karuppusamy , Tomohisa Kawashima , Garrett K. Keating , Mark Kettenis , Jae-Young Kim , Junhan Kim , Jongsoo Kim , Motoki Kino , Jun Yi Koay , Patrick M. Koch , Shoko Koyama , Michael Kramer , Carsten Kramer , Thomas P. Krichbaum , Cheng-Yu Kuo , Tod R. Lauer , Sang-Sung Lee , Yan-Rong Li , Zhiyuan Li , Michael Lindqvist , Rocco Lico , Jun Liu , Kuo Liu , Elisabetta Liuzzo , Wen-Ping Lo , Andrei P. Lobanov , Colin Lonsdale , Ru-Sen Lu , Jirong Mao , Sera Markoff , Daniel P. Marrone , Alan P. Marscher , Ivan Martí-Vidal , Satoki Matsushita , Yosuke Mizuno , Izumi Mizuno , James M. Moran , Kotaro Moriyama , Monika Moscibrodzka , Cornelia Muller , Gibwa Musoke , Alejandro Mus Mejías , Hiroshi Nagai , Neil M. Nagar , Ramesh Narayan , Gopal Narayanan , Iniyan Natarajan , Roberto Neri , Aristeidis Noutsos , Hiroki Okino , Hector Olivares , Tomoaki Oyama , Daniel C. M. Palumbo , Jongho Park , Nimesh Patel , Ue-Li Pen , Vincent Pietu , Richard Plambeck , Aleksandar PopStefanija , Ben Prather , Jorge A. Preciado-Lopez , Venkatessh Ramakrishnan , Ramprasad Rao , Mark G. Rawlings , Alexander W. Raymond , Bart Ripperda , Freek Roelofs , Alan Rogers , Eduardo Ros , Mel Rose , Arash Roshanineshat , Helge Rottmann , Alan L. Roy , Chet Ruszczyk , Benjamin R. Ryan , Kazi L. J. Rygl , Salvador Sanchez , David Sanchez-Arguelles , Mahito Sasada , Tuomas Savolainen , F. Peter Schloerb , Karl-Friedrich Schuster , Lijing Shao , Zhiqiang Shen , Des Small , Bong Won Sohn , Jason SooHoo , Fumie Tazaki , Remo P. J. Tilanus , Michael Titus , Pablo Torne , Tyler Trent , Efthalia Traianou , Sascha Trippe , Ilse van Bemmel , Huib Jan van Langevelde , Daniel R. van Rossum , Jan Wagner , John Wardle , Derek Ward-Thompson , Jonathan Weintroub , Norbert Wex , Robert Wharton , Maciek Wielgus , George N. Wong , Qingwen Wu , Doosoo Yoon , Andre Young , Ken Young , Ziri Younsi , Feng Yuan , Ye-Fei Yuan , Shan-Shan Zhao , the EHT Collaboration

Exact formulas relating the radii of the spherical photon orbits to the black hole's rotation parameter and the effective inclination angle of the orbit have been known only for equatorial and polar orbits up to now. Here we provide exact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-18 Aydin Tavlayan , Bayram Tekin

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

Gravitational lensing can happen not only for null signal but also timelike signals such as neutrinos and massive gravitational waves in some theories beyond GR. In this work we study the time delay between different relativistic images…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-27 Haotian Liu , Junji Jia

High-frequency very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations can now resolve the horizon-scale emission from sources in the immediate vicinity of nearby supermassive black holes. Future space-VLBI observations will access highly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-07 Frederic H. Vincent , Samuel E. Gralla , Alexandru Lupsasca , Maciek Wielgus

In this paper, we investigate the overlapping of photon rings - higher-order images of a black hole's luminous environment, concentrated near the shadow boundary and expected to be resolved in future observations. We consider a broad class…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-15 Oleg Yu. Tsupko , Fabio Aratore , Volker Perlick

We study the order ten polynomial equation satisfied by the radius of the spherical timelike orbits for a massive particle with a generic energy around a Kerr black hole. Even though the radii of the prograde and retrograde orbits at the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-05 Aydin Tavlayan , Bayram Tekin