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Horizon scale imaging and precision lensing have turned black holes into quantitative laboratories for strong gravity and for non standard electromagnetic physics. We study the optical appearance and orbital dynamics of a new class of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-12 İlim İrfan Çimdiker , Ali Övgün , Yosef Verbin

We study the gravitational lensing by a Kerr-Sen Black Hole arising in heterotic string theory. A closed form expression for the bending angle of light in equatorial plane of Kerr-Sen Black Hole is derived as a function of impact parameter,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-24 Rashmi Uniyal , Hemwati Nandan , Philippe Jetzer

The effects of dark matter spike in the vicinity of the supermassive black hole, located at the center of M87 (the Virgo A galaxy), are investigated within the framework of the so-called Bumblebee Gravity. Our primary aim is to determine…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-30 S. Capozziello , S. Zare , D. F. Mota , H. Hassanabadi

In this study, we examine the impacts of black hole spin, Lorentz-violating parameter, and the scalar field's mass on quasinormal modes (QNMs) of rotating Einstein-Bumblebee black holes, including computations up to the second-order…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-12 Weike Deng , Wentao Liu , Fen Long , Kui Xiao , Jiliang Jing

Einstein-bumblebee gravity, as a class of massive non-minimally coupled vector-tensor theories, provides a useful framework for constraining Lorentz symmetry breaking through astrophysical observations, largely due to the existence of exact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-23 Zhe Luo , Shoulong Li , Hongwei Yu

In this paper, we perform a detailed study of the thermodynamic properties of a charged black hole in bumblebee gravity in the presence of a global monopole. We also analyze the optical characteristics of this black hole solution,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-02 Faizuddin Ahmed , Shubham Kala , Edilberto O. Silva

In this paper, we study the particle dynamics, shadow, and optical appearance of charged black holes (BHs) in bumblebee gravity. Firstly, we find that the Lorentz-violation parameter l and charge parameter Q have opposite effects on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-03 Mou Xu , Jianbo Lu , Ruonan Li , Yu Liu , Shu-Min Wu

This paper systematically revisits the critical orbits of test particles moving in various black hole backgrounds, including the Schwarzschild, Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m, Kerr, and Kerr-Newman spacetimes. We identify the critical orbit cases…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-11 Ping Li , Jun Cheng , Jiang-he Yang

In theories where the Lorentz symmetry of gravity is spontaneously broken, a non-minimally coupled bumblebee vector field acquires a nonzero vacuum expectation value, leading to modifications of standard General Relativity (GR). In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-11 Faizuddin Ahmed , Shubham Kala , Ahmad Al-Badawi

Motivated by (i) more and more interest in strong gravitational lensing by supermassive black holes due to the achievement of EHT observations, (ii) the ongoing popular topic on the possibility of Lorentz symmetry being broken in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-01 Xiao-Mei Kuang , Ali Övgün

Bumblebee gravity is one of the simplest gravity theories with spontaneous Lorentz symmetry breaking. Since we know a rotating black hole solution in bumblebee gravity, we can potentially test this model with the available astrophysical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-16 Jiale Gu , Shafqat Riaz , Askar B. Abdikamalov , Dimitry Ayzenberg , Cosimo Bambi

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 effect of Lorentz symmetry violation in the phenomenon of photon gravitational bending, is investigated. Using a semiclassical approach, where the photon is described by the Carrol-Field-Jackiw (CFJ) electrodynamics which is responsible…

General Physics · Physics 2016-06-01 Antonio Accioly , Gustavo P. de Brito , José Helayël-Neto

The photon sphere, a hypersurface of null circular geodesics, plays a fundamental role in characterizing black hole spacetimes, influencing phenomena such as black hole shadows, gravitational lensing, and quasinormal modes. In this work, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-28 Yong Song , Jiaqi Fu , Yiting Cen

The notion of non-equatorial spherical photon orbits is among the very special properties of the Kerr spacetime of rotating black holes and is one that leaves a clear mark on the electromagnetic and gravitational wave signature of these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-15 George Pappas , Kostas Glampedakis

We study electrically charged, slowly rotating black hole solutions in Einstein-Bumblebee gravity coupled to the traceless (conformal) ModMax nonlinear electrodynamics. By adopting a quadratic bumblebee potential that fixes the vacuum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-21 Yassine Sekhmani , Wentao Liu , Weike Deng , Kuantay Boshkayev

In this paper, we first consider null geodesics of a class of charged, spherical and asymptotically flat hairy black holes in an Einstein-Maxwell-scalar theory with a non-minimal coupling for the scalar and electromagnetic fields.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-07 Qingyu Gan , Peng Wang , Houwen Wu , Haitang Yang

We examine the behaviour of circular geodesics describing orbits of neutral test particles around an extreme Kerr-Newman black hole. It is well known that the radial Boyer-Lindquist coordinates of the prograde photon orbit $r=r_{\rm ph}$,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-07-02 Sebastian Ulbricht , Reinhard Meinel

In this paper, we investigate black hole solutions in Einstein-Kalb-Ramond (EKR) bumblebee gravity sourced by a global monopole characterized by the charge $\eta$. This modified theory of gravity possesses the notable feature of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-17 F. M. Belchior , R. V. Maluf , A. Yu. Petrov , P. J. Porfírio

Einstein-bumblebee gravity is one of the simplest vector-tensor theories that realizes spontaneous Lorentz symmetry breaking. In this work, we first construct an exact dyonic Reissner-Nordstr\"om-like black hole solution in four dimensions,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-23 Shoulong Li , Liang Liang , Liang Ma