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In fully general relativity, we calculate the images of the radiatively inefficient accretion flow (RIAF) surrounding a Kerr black hole with arbitrary spins, inclination angles, and observational wavelengths. For the same initial…

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This paper investigates the shadow and polarization images of a Kerr-Sen black hole illuminated by geometrically thick and optically thin accretion disks. We adopt two classes of accretion models, namely the phenomenological radiatively…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-14 Yu-Kang Wang , Chen-Yu Yang , Xiao-Xiong Zeng

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 investigate the imaging and polarization properties of Kerr-MOG black holes surrounded by geometrically thick accretion flows. The MOG parameter $\alpha$ introduces deviations from the Kerr metric, providing a means to test modified…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-18 Xinyu Wang , Huan Ye , Xiao-Xiong Zeng

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

This paper investigates the observable properties of a Kerr-Sen black hole surrounded by a thin accretion disk, focusing on the impact of the black hole's spin and charge on the image. Using ray-tracing techniques, we conduct a detailed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-24 Pei Wang , Sen Guo , Li-Fang Li , Zhan-Feng Mai , Bo-Feng Wu , Wen-Hao Deng , Qing-Quan Jiang

We present a systematic investigation of the radiative properties and optical appearance of rotating SV black holes surrounded by a thin accretion disks, and mainly analyze the influence of the regularization parameter $g$ on related…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-17 Ziyang Li , Shou-Qi Liu , Jia-Hui Huang

We have studied the properties of thin accretion disks around swirling-Kerr black holes, which own an extra swirling parameter describing the rotation of the immersed universe. Our results show that the swirling parameter leaves distinct…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-30 Yuxin Ouyang , Xuan Zhou , Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing

We investigate the shadow, timelike geodesic structure, radiation properties of thin accretion disks, and optical appearance of a static spherically symmetric regular black hole, constructed based on the Dehnen-type density profile. Using…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-24 Tianyou Ren , Jing-Ya Zhao , Xiaomei Liu , Rong-Jia Yang

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

The characteristics and images of Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton (EMD) black holes are examined in this paper, focusing on their effective potential, photon trajectories, and images with thin and thick accretion disks. We found that the shadow…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-12 Gang Chen , Sen Guo , Jia-Shuo Li , Yu-Xiang Huang , Li-Fang Li , Peng Xu

The main objective of this study is to explore the shadow and polarization patterns of a Kerr-Sen-like BH induced from Bumblebee gravity, which, among other alternative theories of gravity beyond Einstein gravity, stands out as a promising…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-26 Muhammad Israr Aslam , Nazek Alessa , Chen-Yu Yang , Xiao-Xiong Zeng

The images of supermassive black holes surrounded by optically-thin, radiatively-inefficient accretion flows, like those observed with the Event Horizon Telescope, are characterized by a bright ring of emission surrounding the black-hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-01 Ziri Younsi , Dimitrios Psaltis , Feryal Özel

Using ray-tracing techniques, this paper investigates the optical and polarization images of rotating black holes in Kalb-Ramond (KR) gravity illuminated by thick accretion disks. We examine two accretion disk models: the phenomenological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-29 Chen-Yu Yang , Huan Ye , Xiao-Xiong Zeng

The ring-like images of the two supermassive black holes captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) provide powerful probes of the physics of accretion flows at horizon scales. Specifically, the brightness asymmetry in the images carries…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-24 J. Cole Faggert , Feryal Özel , Dimitrios Psaltis

We consider thin accretion disks in the field of a class of rotating regular black holes. For this purpose, we obtain the radius of the innermost stable circular orbit, $r_{ISCO}$ and efficiency of accretion disk in converting matter into…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-28 Kuantay Boshkayev , Talgar Konysbayev , Yergali Kurmanov , Orlando Luongo , Marco Muccino , Aliya Taukenova , Ainur Urazalina

We investigate the optical appearance of a Kerr-Bertotti-Robinson (Kerr-BR) black hole illuminated by a geometrically and optically thin accretion disk. Instead of using a phenomenological power-law emissivity, we adopt a magnetically…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-12 Zeng-Yi Zhang , Xiang-Qian Li , Hao-Peng Yan , Xiao-Jun Yue

Images from the vicinity of the black hole horizon at the Galactic centre (Sgr A*) could be obtained in the near future with a Very Large Baseline Array of sub-millimetre telescopes. The recently observed short-term infrared and X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Avery E. Broderick , Abraham Loeb

In this work, we consider a spherically symmetric static black hole metric in Kalb-Ramond (KR) gravity, and investigate the impact of relevant parameters on the black hole shadow and polarization images. For black hole shadow images, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-04 Xiao-Xiong Zeng , Chen-Yu Yang , Muhammad Israr Aslam , Rabia Saleem

This study investigates the visual characteristics of a rotating black hole (BH) within the fabric of $4$D Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity illuminated with two illumination models, such as a celestial light sphere and a thin accretion disk.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-22 Muhammad Israr Aslam , Manahil Ali , Abdul Malik Sultan , Xiao-Xiong Zeng , Sultan Hussain
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