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Rapid progress in electromagnetic black hole observation presents a theoretical challenge: how can the universal signatures of extreme gravitational lensing be distilled from stochastic astrophysical signals? With this motivation, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-12 Shahar Hadar , Sreehari Harikesh , Doron Chelouche

A black hole's gravitational pull can deflect light rays to an arbitrary degree. As a result, any source fluctuation near the black hole creates multiple lagged images on an observer's screen. For optically thin stochastic emission, these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-11 Barbora Bezděková , Shahar Hadar , George Wong , Maciek Wielgus

The strong gravitational field of a black hole bends light, forming multi-level images, yet extracting precise spacetime information from them remains challenging. In this study, we investigate how gravitational lensing leaves unique and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-24 Zhenyu Zhang , Yehui Hou , Minyong Guo , Yosuke Mizuno , Bin Chen

In the presence of a black hole, light sources connect to observers along multiple paths. As a result, observed brightness fluctuations must be correlated across different times and positions in black hole images. Photons that execute…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-21 Shahar Hadar , Michael D. Johnson , Alexandru Lupsasca , George N. Wong

The Event Horizon Telescope recently produced the first images of a black hole. These images were synthesized by measuring the coherent correlation function of the complex electric field measured at telescopes located across the Earth. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-09 Paul M. Chesler , Lindy Blackburn , Sheperd S. Doeleman , Michael D. Johnson , James M. Moran , Ramesh Narayan , Maciek Wielgus

The images of supermassive black holes in M87 and our galaxy captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) might open up a new way for exploring black hole physics at the horizon scale. Theoretically, this could provide insights into…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-15 Qing-Hua Zhu

The inner parts of black-hole accretion discs shine in X-rays which can be monitored and the observed spectra can be used to trace strong gravitational fields in the place of emission and along paths of light rays. This paper summarizes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-10 V. Karas

Recent advances in AdS/CFT holography have suggested that the near-horizon dynamics of black holes can be described by random matrix systems. We study how the energy spectrum of a system with a generic random Hamiltonian matrix affects its…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-12 Krishan Saraswat , Niayesh Afshordi

The light deflection under a strong gravitational field, referred to as strong gravitational lensing, provides a powerful probe of spacetime geometry. Besides, laboratory analogue models are employed to study the effects of curved spacetime…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-06 Suting Ju , Jingxuan Zhang , Li-Gang Wang

Spectral features can arise by reflection of coronal X-rays on a black hole accretion disc. The resulting profile bears various imprints of strong gravitational field acting on the light emitting gas. The observed shape of the reflection…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 V. Sochora , V. Karas , J. Svoboda , M. Dovciak

We model the light-curves from radiation-driven clouds near an accreting black hole. Taking into account the multiple images due to strong gravitational lensing, we find that sharp spikes can significantly enhance the observed flux.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-16 V. Karas

The purpose of the current Letter is to give some relations between gravitational lensing in the strong-deflection limit and the frequencies of the quasinormal modes of spherically symmetric, asymptotically flat black holes. On the one…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-09-24 Ivan Zh. Stefanov , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev , Galin G. Gyulchev

Accreting black holes show characteristic reflection features in their X-ray spectrum, including an iron K$\alpha$ line, resulting from hard X-ray continuum photons illuminating the accretion disk. The reverberation lag resulting from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-24 Guglielmo Mastroserio , Adam Ingram , Michiel van der Klis

Measurements of the spectrum of the fluctuations of the output current of the quadratic detector of a telescope can be used to find unresolved astronomical gravitational lenses and determine time delays between their image components. These…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ermanno F. Borra

Local and non-local properties of Hawking radiation in the presence of short distance dispersion are computed using connection formulae. The robustness of the spectrum and that of the two-point function are explained by showing that the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-02-03 Antonin Coutant , Renaud Parentani , Stefano Finazzi

The inherent non-linearity of intensity correlation functions can be used to spatially distinguish identical emitters beyond the diffraction limit, as achieved, for example, in Super-Resolution Optical Fluctuation Imaging (SOFI). Here, we…

Optics · Physics 2024-12-18 Yifan Chen , Chieh Tsao , Hendrik Utzat

Images of black holes encode both astrophysical and gravitational properties. Detecting highly-lensed features in images can differentiate between these two effects. We present an accretion disk emission model coupled to the Adaptive…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-24 Tejahni Desire , Alejandro Cárdenas-Avendaño , Andrew Chael

I review the temporal/spectral data of accreting black hole sources paying most attention to the properties of the temporal variability such as photon energy dependent auto- and cross-correlation functions, average shot profiles and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Juri Poutanen

Due to the short gravitational timescale of Sgr A*, variable emissions near the galactic center are expected in the Very-long-baseline interferometry observations. Phenomenologically, the high-flux variable emissions could be interpreted as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-10 Qing-Hua Zhu

Spectral lines from a source orbiting around a compact object are studied. Time variations of observed frequency and count rate due to motion of the source and gravitational lensing are considered. Gravitational field of the central object…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 V. Karas , P. Kraus
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