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There are now multiple direct probes of the region near black hole horizons, including direct imaging with the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). As a result, it is now of considerable interest to identify what aspects of the underlying…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-06 Kiana Salehi , Avery Broderick , Boris Georgiev

Ultralight bosons can affect the dynamics of spinning black holes (BHs) via superradiant instability, which can lead to a time evolution of the supermassive BH shadow. We study prospects for witnessing the superradiance-induced BH shadow…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-25 Yifan Chen , Rittick Roy , Sunny Vagnozzi , Luca Visinelli

The direct detection of a bright, ring-like structure in horizon-resolving images of M87* by the Event Horizon Telescope is a striking validation of general relativity. The angular size and shape of the ring is a degenerate measure of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-09 Avery E. Broderick , Paul Tiede , Dominic W. Pesce , Roman Gold

The need for a consistent quantum evolution for black holes has led to proposals that their semiclassical description is modified not just near the singularity, but at horizon or larger scales. If such modifications extend beyond the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-25 Steven B. Giddings , Dimitrios Psaltis

The data from the event horizon telescope have provided a novel view of the vicinity of the horizon of a black hole (BH), by imaging the region around the light-ring. They have also raised hopes for measuring in the near future, features of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-07 Konstantinos Kostaros , George Pappas

With the imaging and characterization of the horizon-scale images of M87* and Sgr A* by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), it has become possible to resolve the near-horizon region of astrophysical black holes. As a result, there has been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-31 Avery E. Broderick , Kiana Salehi , Boris Georgiev

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has recently delivered the first resolved images of M87*, the supermassive black hole in the center of the M87 galaxy. These images were produced using 230 GHz observations performed in 2017 April.…

We compare and contrast gravitational lensing, in the strong-field limit, by photon sphere in spherically symmetric regular electrically charged (REC) black holes ($0<b\leq b_E$) and with those by corresponding REC no-horizon spacetimes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-21 Jitendra Kumar , Shafqat Ul Islam , Sushant G. Ghosh

The images of supermassive black holes captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration have allowed us to have access to the physical processes that occur in the vicinity of the event horizons of these objects. This has enabled…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-14 Gaston Giribet , Emilio Rubin de Celis , Pedro Schmied

The central supermassive black hole of the galaxy M87 is currently a target for precision spin measurement using high-resolution, horizon-scale imaging. Such observations aim to resolve the first lensed (${n}~{=}~{1}$) sub-image of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-27 Delilah E. A. Gates , Dominic O. Chang , Aaron Held , Daniel C. M. Palumbo

The bright ring-like structures observed in the images of M87* and SgrA* captured by the Event Horizon Telescope strongly support the validity of general relativity. Lensed images of the emission region, often referred to as photon rings in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-22 Kiana Salehi , Avery Broderick

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

The very latest observation of $M87$ supermassive black hole (BH) by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) provides the accretion onto BHs is an interesting study in the theory of gravity. We study the geodesics structure and accretion near a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-09 A. Ditta , G. Mustafa , G. Abbas , Farruh Atamurotov , Kimet Jusufi

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration recently released horizon-scale images of the supermassive black hole M87*. These images are consistently described by an optically thin, lensed accretion flow in the Kerr spacetime. General…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-24 Hadrien Paugnat , Alexandru Lupsasca , Frédéric Vincent , Maciek Wielgus

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration observed ring images called the shadows of M87* and Sagittarius~A* (Sgr~A*), which are supermassive objects in M87 and our galaxy, respectively, and their general relativistic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-04 Naoki Tsukamoto , Ryotaro Kase

Thanks to the release of the extraordinary EHT image of shadow attributed to the M87* supermassive black hole (SMBH), we have a novel window to assess the validity of fundamental physics in the strong-field regime. Motivated by this, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-22 Mohsen Khodadi , Gaetano Lambiase , David F. Mota

The $n=1$ photon ring is a full image of the astrophysical source around a black hole, produced by photons that execute $n\approx1$ half-orbit around the event horizon on their way to an observer. The Black Hole Explorer (BHEX) is a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-30 Joseph R. Farah , Alexandru Lupsasca , Eliot Quataert , Michael D. Johnson

In this work, the wave optics is employed to investigate the Einstein ring of a deformed AdS-Schwarzschild black hole (BH). When the source is fixed on the AdS boundary, one can obtain the corresponding response function generated on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-16 Jin-Yu Gui , Xiao-Xiong Zeng , Ke-Jian He , Huan Ye

The Black Hole Explorer (BHEX), an orbiting, multi-band, millimeter radio-telescope, in hybrid combination with millimeter terrestrial radio-telescopes, is designed to discover and measure the thin photon ring around the supermassive black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-17 Peter Galison , Michael D. Johnson , Alexandru Lupsasca , Trevor Gravely , Roman Berens

The presence of a quintessence-like field can influence the black hole shadow through three primary mechanisms: the dynamics of accretion flows, the trajectories of photons, and the motion of observers. Unlike standard shadow analyses that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-13 Ji-Wen Li , Zi-Liang Wang , Tao-Tao Sui
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