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We establish a direct connection between the interior curvature structure of nonsingular black holes (BHs) with a Minkowski core and their observable optical signatures. By classifying these spacetimes into three fundamental types, Type I…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-25 Ming-Xin Li , Jin Pu , Yi Ling , Guo-Ping Li

This paper investigates the optical appearance of a Schwarzschild-like black hole (BH) surrounded by a Dehnen-(1, 4, 5/2) type dark matter (DM) halo, with a focus on how the DM halo's density $\rho_{s}$ and radius $r_{s}$ influence the BH's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-17 Zuting Luo , Meirong Tang , Zhaoyi Xu

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration recently released horizon-scale images of the supermassive black hole M87*. These images are consistently described by an optically thin, lensed accretion flow in the Kerr spacetime. General…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-24 Hadrien Paugnat , Alexandru Lupsasca , Frédéric Vincent , Maciek Wielgus

In the simulations of the multi-black holes and merging black holes a larger primary image and a secondary smaller image which looks like an eyebrow and the deformation of the shadows have been observed. However, this kind of eyebrow-like…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-16 Shohreh Abdolrahimi , Robert B. Mann , Christos Tzounis

Astrophysical black holes are often surrounded by dark matter, which can influence their dynamics and observational signatures. In this work, we study a Schwarzschild-like black hole immersed in a Dehnen-type $(1,4,2)$ dark matter halo and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-05 Akshat Pathrikar

We consider the optical appearance of a non-singular, spherically symmetric black hole from Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld gravity coupled to anisotropic fluids. Such a black hole has a single (external) horizon located very near the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-01 David Díaz-Guerra , Angel Rincon , Diego Rubiera-Garcia

A hairy black hole (HBH) emerges due to matter surrounding the Schwarzschild metric when using the Extended Gravitational Decoupling (GD) approach. The fermionic greybody factors (GFs) and quasinormal modes (QNMs) as well as Hawking spectra…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-13 Ahmad Al-Badawi , Sohan Kumar Jha , Anisur Rahaman

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

We investigate the observational signatures of an idealized double-ring and double-torus system orbiting a Schwarzschild black hole, allowing the two emitting components to have mutually inclined symmetry axes. Using general-relativistic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-14 Dmitriy Ovchinnikov , Jan Schee , Zdeněk Stuchlík

We study the images of black holes by gluing two Schwarzschild spacetimes with a thin shell where the Israel junction conditions are satisfied. By studying the refraction law for null geodesics at the spherical shell, and taking account of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-30 Li-Ming Cao , Long-Yue Li , Xia-Yuan Liu

Recently, an interesting \textit{doppelg\"ange} black hole solution is obtained in the string-inspired Euler-Heisenberg theory, where the black holes have the same radii but share different charges. We found, however, they possess different…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-23 Yukun Xu , Hyat Huang , Meng-Yun Lai , De-Cheng Zou

For a static and spherically symmetric black hole, a photon sphere is composed of circular null geodesics of fixed radius, and plays an important role in observing the black hole. Recently, in an Einstein-Maxwell-scalar model with a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-29 Guangzhou Guo , Peng Wang , Houwen Wu , Haitang Yang

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 paper investigates the appearance characteristics of static black holes embedded in Dehnen-(1,4,5/2)-type dark matter halos with a quintessential field, focusing on how the dark matter halo and dark energy affect the black hole images.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-20 Hong-Er Gong , Junlin Qin , Yusen Wang , Bofeng Wu , Zhan-Feng Mai , Xiao Zhang , Enwei Liang

We discuss photon rings around as well as shadows of Kerr black holes immersed in a swirling spacetime (KBHSU). We find that the spin-spin interaction between the angular momentum of the black hole and the swirling of the background leads…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-16 Rogério Capobianco , Betti Hartmann , Jutta Kunz , Nikhita Vas , João Novo

In this paper, the optical appearance of static and spherically symmetric hairy black holes is studied under the standard Einstein-Maxwell theory considering the p-power Yang-Mills term. During the research process, the specific case of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-14 Zuting Luo , Meirong Tang , Zhaoyi Xu

Black hole thermodynamics is a crucial and foundational aspect of black hole physics, yet its observational verification remains exceptionally challenging. The photon sphere of a black hole, a manifestation of strong gravitational effects,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-29 Si-Jiang Yang , Shan-Ping Wu , Shao-Wen Wei , Yu-Xiao Liu

Accurately inferring black hole spin is crucial for understanding black hole dynamics and their astrophysical environments. In this work, we outline a geometric method for spin estimation by using the interferometric shape of the first…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-22 Lennox S. Keeble , Alejandro Cárdenas-Avendaño , Daniel C. M. Palumbo

Photon sphere has attracted significant attention since the capture of black hole shadow images by Event Horizon Telescope. Recently, a number of studies have highlighted that the number of photon spheres and their distributions near black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-25 Chen-Kai Qiao

In this paper, we consider a static spherically symmetric black hole (BH) embedded in a Dehnen-(1,4,0) type dark matter (DM) halo in the presence of a cloud string. We examine and present data on how the core density of the DM halo…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-31 Ahmad Al-Badawi , Sanjar Shaymatov