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A metric with a Lorentz violating parameter is associated with the bumblebee gravity model. We study the motion of a particle in this bumblebee background where the dynamical variables satisfy non-canonical Snyder algebra along with some…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-11 Sohan Kumar Jha , Himangshu Barman , Anisur Rahaman

We investigate the role of Lorentz violation in the acceleration radiation produced when an atom falls into a Kalb-Ramond (KR) black hole and observe that the amplitude and an exponential (Planck-like) factor are both shaped by the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-03 Anisur Rahaman

Very-long baseline interferometric observations have resolved structure on scales of only a few Schwarzschild radii around the supermassive black holes at the centers of our Galaxy and M87. In the near future, such observations are expected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Tim Johannsen

In this work, the trajectories of particles around a black bounce spacetime are considered, with the Simpson-Visser model serving as an example. Trajectories for massless and massive particles are obtained through the study of null and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-29 Marcos V. de S. Silva , Manuel E. Rodrigues

We investigate kinematic and optical signatures of Lorentz-violation in the strong-field region of a rotating bumblebee black hole generated by a scalar-gradient bumblebee field. Through the analysis of spin precession of test gyroscopes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-02 Qing Ou , Zhen-Bo Wu , Qian Wan , Peng-Cheng Li

We investigate whether photon ring observations in black hole imaging are able to distinguish between the Kerr black hole in general relativity and alternative black holes that deviate from Kerr. Certain aspects of photon rings have been…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-28 Seppe Staelens , Daniel R. Mayerson , Fabio Bacchini , Bart Ripperda , Lorenzo Küchler

We present a novel method to study interacting orbits in a fixed mean gravitational field associated with a solution of the Einstein field equations. The idea is to consider the Newton gravity among the orbiting particles in a geometry…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eduardo Gueron , Patricio S. Letelier

We consider a class of static and spherically symmetric black hole geometries endowed with a photon sphere. On the one hand, we show that close to the photon sphere, a massless scalar field theory exhibits a simple dynamical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-24 Bernard Raffaelli

In this manuscript, we study photonsphere, shadow, quasinormal modes, Hawking temperature, and greybody bounds of a non-rotating Simpson-Visser black hole which is a regular black hole. We observe that though the radius of the photonsphere…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-14 Sohan Kumar Jha

We generalize our previous work on gravitational lensing by a Kerr black hole in the strong deflection limit, removing the restriction to observers on the equatorial plane. Starting from the Schwarzschild solution and adding corrections up…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 V. Bozza , F. De Luca , G. Scarpetta

We study closed photon orbits in spherically-symmetric static solutions of supergravity theories, a Horndeski theory, and a theory of quintessence. These orbits lie in what we shall call a photon sphere (anti-photon sphere) if the orbit is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-26 M. Cvetic , G. W. Gibbons , C. N. Pope

Starting from a Hamiltonian description of the photon within the set of Bargmann-Wigner equations we derive new semiclassical equations of motion for the photon propagating in static gravitational field. These equations which are obtained…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-16 Pierre Gosselin , Alain Bérard , Herve Mohrbach

In this work, we study the images of a Kerr black hole (BH) immersed in uniform magnetic fields, illuminated by the synchrotron radiation of charged particles in the jet. We particularly focus on the spontaneously vortical motions (SVMs) of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-15 Zhenyu Zhang , Yehui Hou , Zezhou Hu , Minyong Guo , Bin Chen

We consider the bending angle of the trajectory of a photon incident from and deflected to infinity around a Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole. We treat the bending angle as a function of the squared reciprocal of the impact parameter and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-04 Tadashi Sasaki

We explored how the Lorentz symmetry breaking parameter $\ell$ affects the Reissner-Nordst\"{o}m BH solution in the context of weak field deflection angle, and the black hole shadow. We aim to derive the general expression for the weak…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-17 Gaetano Lambiase , Reggie C. Pantig , Ali Övgün

We consider monochromatic and isotropic photon emission from circular equatorial Kerr orbiters. We derive analytic expressions for the photon escape probability and the redshift-dependent total flux collected on the celestial sphere as a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-03 Delilah E. A. Gates , Shahar Hadar , Alexandru Lupsasca

We study the vacuum solutions of a gravity model where Lorentz symmetry is spontaneously broken once a vector field acquires a vacuum expectation value. Results are presented for the purely radial Lorentz symmetry breaking (LSB),…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 O. Bertolami , J. Paramos

We explore the universal symmetries of the black hole photon ring in a wide range of non-Kerr spacetimes, including the Kerr-Newman, Kerr-Sen, Kerr-Bardeen, and Kerr-Hayward metrics. The demagnification exponent ($\gamma$) controls the size…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-27 Rahul Kumar Walia , Prashant Kocherlakota , Dominic O. Chang , Kiana Salehi

In this paper we study Einstein-bumblebee gravity theory minimally coupled with external matter -- a phantom/non-phantom(conventional) scalar field, and derive a series of hairy solutions -- bumblebee-phantom(BP) and BP-dS/AdS black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-28 Chikun Ding , Changqing Liu , Yuehua Xiao , Jun Chen

We investigate the possibility of photon halos (stable photon orbits) forming outside Schwarzschild-$f(R)$ black holes by analyzing null geodesics in these spacetimes. Using methods inspired by studies of spherical photon orbits around…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-10 Wen-Xiang Chen