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Recently, black hole thermodynamics and phase transition have been studied in the extended phase space. Besides the VdW-like phase transition, more interesting phase transitions were found. More interestingly, combining with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-03 Shao-Wen Wei , Yu-Xiao Liu

Photon spheres play a pivotal role in the imaging of luminous objects near black holes. In this paper, we examine observational appearances of a star freely falling in hairy black holes, which can possess one or two photon spheres outside…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-07 Yiqian Chen , Guangzhou Guo , Peng Wang , Houwen Wu , Haitang Yang

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

There are circular planar null geodesics at $r=3M$ around a Schwarzschild black hole of mass $M$. These geodesics form a photon sphere. Null geodesics of the Schwarzschild space-time which do not form the photon sphere are either escape to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-03 Andrey A. Shoom

Black hole shadows are a widespread topic in astrophysics. This paper searches for an optical view of the black hole and the relationship between black hole shadow and photon sphere with curvature. We were inspired by the observations of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-26 Ajay Kumar Sharma , Kanav Ganguly , Murli Manohar Verma

In this work, we consider two recently introduced novel regular black hole solutions and investigate the circular null geodesics to find the connection between the photon sphere, the horizon and the black hole shadow radii. We also study…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-01 Khadije Jafarzade , Mahdi Kord Zangeneh , Francisco S. N. Lobo

In this work, we explore the critical parameters that delineate the existence of black holes, identifying the permissible ranges that facilitate their formation. A comprehensive thermodynamic analysis of black holes is conducted, leading to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-04 Farokhnaz Hosseinifar , Shahin Mamedov , Filip Studnička , Hassan Hassanabadi

Photon spheres have attracted considerable interest in the studies of black holes and other astrophysical objects. For different categories of spacetimes (or gravitational sources), the existence of photon spheres and their distributions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-05 Chen-Kai Qiao , Ping Su , Yang Huang

In this paper, we study the properties of the (2+1)-dimensional black holes from the viewpoint of geometrothermodynamics. We show that the Legendre invariant metric of the (2+1)-dimensional black holes can produce correctly the behavior of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 YiWen Han , Gang Chen

We show that the notion of a black hole mass could be superceded by that of a topological charge in a spacetime without matter and curvature singularity. This feature emerges through a set new spacetime solutions of first order gravity in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-06 Sandipan Sengupta

Horizons and bound photon orbits are defining features of black holes that translate into key features of black hole images. We present a purely geometric proof that spherically symmetric, isolated objects with horizons in gravity theories…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-16 Raúl Carballo-Rubio , Astrid Eichhorn

Black holes are thermal objects. They can form thermodynamic phases and exhibit phase transitions. Furthermore, black holes can also radiate, termed as Hawking radiation. However, the signatures of these behaviors are challenging to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-28 Tianqi Yue , Jin Wang

We explore the connection between black hole shadows, thermodynamic phase structure, and microstructure of charged and rotating black holes within General Relativity and Geometrothermodynamics. Focusing on Reissner-Nordstr\"om and Kerr…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-05 Jose Miguel Ladino , Carlos E. Romero-Figueroa , Hernando Quevedo

We study the thermodynamic properties of the Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole with cosmological constant, expressed in terms of the curvature radius, by using the approach of shadow thermodynamics and the formalism of geometrothermodynamics.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-03 Jose M. Ladino , Carlos E. Romero-Figueroa , Hernando Quevedo

The null geodesics and the distance of closest approach for photon around a rotating dyonic black hole in $\mathcal{N} = 2, U(1)^2$ gauged supergravity is studied. The phenomenon of black hole shadows with various black hole parameters has…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-27 Prateek Sharma , Hemwati Nandan , Uma Papnoi , Arindam Kumar Chatterjee

In this paper we derive exact analytical formulas for the evolution of the photon sphere and for the angular radius of the shadow in a special Vaidya spacetime. The Vaidya metric describes a spherically symmetric object that gains or loses…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-01 Jay Solanki , Volker Perlick

Thermodynamical topology has emerged as a powerful framework for classifying the thermodynamical behavior of black holes. Three distinct yet complementary topological invariants have been employed to characterize black hole phases, spinodal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-05 Shan-Ping Wu , Si-Jiang Yang , Shao-Wen Wei

The photon sphere defines the unstable circular orbit of photons in a black hole spacetime. Photons emitted by a source located inside the photon sphere can be gravitationally lensed by the black hole and have time delays when reaching the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-28 Yuan-Xing Gao

The introduction of thermodynamics into gravitational physics began 5 decades ago with the discovery that black holes behave like thermodynamic systems once semiclassical quantum effects are taken into account. Notions of temperature,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-05 Robert B. Mann

This is an introductory, up-to-date review of the essentials of black hole thermodynamics. The main topics surveyed are: (i) the four laws of thermodynamics as applied to a black hole horizon, and the current status of their proofs; (ii)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-12 Aron C. Wall