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Accretion onto black holes often proceeds via an accretion disc or a temporary disc-like pattern. Variability features, observed in the light curves of such objects, and theoretical models of accretion flows suggest that accretion discs are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-01 V. Karas

When an accretion flow extends to the event horizon, their intersection defines the contour of the inner shadow. However, the morphological evolution of this critical feature remains largely unexplored within a torn accretion disk system, a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-28 Shiyang Hu , Dan Li , Chen Deng , Kejian He

The astrophysical consequences of the presence of a quintessence scalar field on the evolution of the horizon and on the accretion disk surrounding a static black hole, in the Scalar-Vector-Tensor version of Modified Gravity (MOG), are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-15 Haidar Sheikhahmadi , Saheb Soroushfar , S. N. Sajadi , Tiberiu Harko

We investigate the orbital structure and observable appearance of rotating Kerr black holes endowed with synchronized scalar hair described by two time-periodic scalar fields with a flat target-space geometry. The presence of scalar hair…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-11 Galin N. Gyulchev , Daniela D. Doneva , Valentin O. Deliyski , Petya G. Nedkova , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

Here we provide shadow images of a Kerr-like black hole (BH) in cold dark matter (CDM) halo illuminated with a celestial light source and a thin accretion disk. The impact of spin parameter, critical density and the scale radius on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-13 Xiao-Xiong Zeng , Chen-Yu Yang , M. Israr Aslam , Rabia Saleem , Sadia Aslam

We investigate the characteristics of circular geodesics around loop quantum Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole (LQRNBH) and the radiation properties and observational appearance of a thin accretion disk around it. By calculating the shadow…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-22 Qian Li , Jia-Hui Huang

This paper investigates the shadow images of rotating charged black holes in Kalb-Ramond (KR) gravity, using an accretion disk that is both optically and geometrically thin and located on the equatorial plane as the light source model. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-12 Chen-Yu Yang , Ke-Jian He , Xiao-Xiong Zeng , Li-Fang Li

We calculate the structure of accretion disc around a rapidly rotating black hole with a super-Eddington accretion rate. The luminosity and height of the disc are reduced by the advection effect. In the case of a large viscosity parameter,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Andrei M. Beloborodov

The presence of a photon region around the black hole is an essential feature in receiving the emitted spectrum from the vicinity of the black hole by the distant observer. In this paper, we investigate the optical properties of rotating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-26 Balendra Pratap Singh , Md Sabir Ali , Sushant~G. ~Ghosh

If an accretion disk around a black hole is illuminated by hard X-rays from non-thermal coronae, fluorescent iron lines will be emitted from the inner region of the accretion disk. The emission line profiles will show a variety of strong…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Yan Wang , Xiang-Dong Li

The spin measurement of black holes has important implications in physics and astrophysics. Regardless of the specific technique to estimate the black hole spin, all the current approaches assume that the space-time geometry around the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-02 Cosimo Bambi , Daniele Malafarina , Naoki Tsukamoto

In this paper, we examine the motion of test particles and relativistic accretion mechanisms within the spacetime of a rotating and embedded BH. In this case, the geometric properties of the metric and their dynamical consequences for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-06 Asifa Ashraf , Orhan Donmez , Abdelmalek Bouzenada , Chengxun Yuan , Aylin Caliskan , Gulzoda Rakhimova , Ahmadjon Abdujabbarov

Observations of the black hole in the center of the Milky Way with the Event Horizon Telescope at 1.3 mm have revealed a size of the emitting region that is smaller than the size of the black-hole shadow. This can be reconciled with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Dimitrios Psaltis , Ramesh Narayan , Vincent L. Fish , Avery E. Broderick , Abraham Loeb , Sheperd S. Doeleman

In this paper, we analyze a thin disk around the distorted Kerr black hole (DKB) within the framework of general relativity using an axisymmetric solution of the Einstein equations. We consider this accretion disk around the Kerr black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-30 Olya Layeghi , Jamshid Ghanbari , Mahboobe Moeen Moghaddas

Combined influence of rotation of a black hole and ambient magnetic fields creates conditions for powerful astrophysical processes of accretion and outflow of matter which are observed in many systems across the range of masses; from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-26 Ondrej Kopacek , Vladimir Karas

Black hole binaries exhibit a wide range of variability phenomena, from large-scale state changes to broadband noise and quasi-periodic oscillations, but the physical nature of much of this variability is poorly understood. We examine the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Sarah Wellons , Yucong Zhu , Dimitrios Psaltis , Ramesh Narayan , Jeffrey E. McClintock

We investigate the thin disk and shadow of Kerr-Sen black hole in Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton-axion gravity. The results reveal that as the dilaton parameter $r_2$ increase, the energy flux, the radiation temperature, the spectra luminosity,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-30 Haiyuan Feng , Rong-Jia Yang , Wei-Qiang Chen

We calculate the structure of accretion disks around Kerr black holes for accretion rates 0.001 - 10 M_sun/s. Such disks are plausible candidates for the central engine of gamma-ray bursts. Our disk model is fully relativistic and treats…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Wen-Xin Chen , Andrei M. Beloborodov

Special and general relativistic effects on the X-ray emissions, especially the continuum spectra, from the accretion disks around black holes are investigated using the ray-tracing method. Because both the special and general relativistic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Xiaoling Zhang , Shuang Nan Zhang , Yangsen Yao

The accreting collapsed object GRO J1655-40 could contain the gravitomagnetic monopole (GMM), and it was shown to be better described by the Kerr-Taub-NUT (KTN) spacetime instead of the Kerr spacetime. The warped accretion disk has also…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-13 Gargi Sen , Chandrachur Chakraborty , Sudip Bhattacharyya , Debaprasad Maity , Sayan Chakrabarti , Santabrata Das