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The paper presents a catalog of supermassive black holes (SMBH) shapened for the interferometric observations in millimeter and submillimeter wavelength ranges and based on the open sources. The catalog includes the name of the object,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-24 E. V. Mikheeva , V. N. Lukash , S. V. Repin , A. M. Malinovsky

In this work, we focus on the situation where a significant amount of matter could be located close to the event horizon of the central black hole and how it affects the gravitational lensing signal. We consider a simple toy model where the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-28 Harsha Miriam Reji , Mandar Patil

In this paper, we investigate the observational appearances of magnetically charged black holes in Born-Infeld (BI) electrodynamics. We examine the effects of the magnetic charge and the BI parameter on the geodesics with different impact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-20 Shangyu Wen , Wei Hong , Jun Tao

Motivated by the prospect of measuring a black hole photon ring, in previous work we explored the interferometric signature produced by a bright, narrow curve in the sky. Interferometric observations of such a curve measure its "projected…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-09 Samuel E. Gralla , Alexandru Lupsasca

In this work, we derive new analytic, static, symmetric black hole solutions in theories involving dark photons with minimal and higher-order magnetic dipole interactions. Starting from the effective non-relativistic potential between…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-13 Ali Övgün , Reggie C. Pantig

We investigate particle motion in regular and asymptotically flat black hole spacetimes supported by Dehnen-type dark-matter halos. Two analytic models are analyzed, allowing a systematic study of circular geodesics, photon-sphere…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-25 Bekir Can Lütfüoğlu

We investigate the influence of Born-Infeld (BI) nonlinear electrodynamics on magnetic field configurations, photon orbits, and black hole shadows for Schwarzschild black holes immersed in magnetic fields. Assuming that the BI magnetic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-03 Yiqian Chen , Guangzhou Guo , Benrong Mu , Peng Wang

The black hole photon ring is a prime target for upcoming space-based VLBI missions seeking to image the fine structure of astrophysical black holes. The classical Lyapunov exponents of the corresponding nearly bound null geodesics control…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-19 Daniel Kapec , Alexandru Lupsasca , Andrew Strominger

In this work, we investigate observable signatures of a magnetically charged Anti-de Sitter black hole in string-inspired Euler-Heisenberg theory. We analyze photon trajectories, the photon sphere, and the resulting black hole shadow. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-23 Faizuddin Ahmed , Mohsen Fathi , Ahmad Al-Badawi

Recent observations of black hole shadows have revolutionized our ability to probe gravity in extreme environments. This manuscript presents a novel analytic method to calculate, in leading-order terms, the key parameters of photon sphere…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-04 Vitalii Vertogradov , Ali Övgün

In this work, we establish the existence conditions and a universal upper bound on the radius of stable photon spheres (SPS) outside the event horizons of static, spherically symmetric, asymptotically flat black holes surrounded by matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-16 Yong Song , Jiaqi Fu , Yiting Cen

In this work, the wave optics is employed to investigate the Einstein ring of a deformed AdS-Schwarzschild black hole (BH). When the source is fixed on the AdS boundary, one can obtain the corresponding response function generated on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-16 Jin-Yu Gui , Xiao-Xiong Zeng , Ke-Jian He , Huan Ye

In this study, we investigate a static, spherically symmetric black hole (BH) within the framework of Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) surrounded by quintessence field. Our comprehensive analysis shows that the interplay between quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-20 Ahmad Al-Badawi , Faizuddin Ahmed , İzzet Sakallı

In this study, we investigate black holes (BHs) surrounded by a quintessence field (QF) within the framework of effective quantum gravity (EQG). We analyze the spacetime metric characterized by quantum correction parameter $\xi$ and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-25 Ahmad Al-Badawi , Faizuddin Ahmed , Tursunali Xamidov , Sanjar Shaymatov , İzzet Sakallı

This article delves into the observational properties of a Schwarzschild-like black hole (BH). Initially, the research provides a succinct examination of the spacetime geometry and the configuration of its horizon. Furthermore, we study the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-17 Weiqiang Yang , Mirzabek Alloqulov , Ahmadjon Abdujabbarov , Bobomurat Ahmedov , Chengxun Yuan , Chen Zhou

We investigate the impact of higher-curvature corrections on black-hole observables within a perturbative $f(R, G)$ gravity framework. Working in a static, spherically symmetric spacetime, we construct leading-order deviations from the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-26 G. G. L. Nashed

Light circling around an astrophysical black hole can spend a long time skirting its unstably bound photon orbits before escaping to infinity. To a distant observer, this orbiting light would appear as a bright ring encircling the image of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-10 Stéphane Detournay , Sahaja Kanuri , Alexandru Lupsasca , Philippe Spindel , Quentin Vandermiers , Raphaela Wutte

Intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) are the missing link in the cosmic hierarchy of black holes, bridging the gap between stellar-mass black holes and supermassive ones. They also serve as unique laboratories for testing strong-field…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-20 Huan Zhou , Zhengxiang Li , Cheng-Gang Shao , Xi-Jing Wang , Kai Liao , He Gao , Zong-Hong Zhu

In this paper, we investigate the dynamic phenomenological signatures of a Schwarzschild-MOG black hole shadow perturbed by passing gravitational waves. By perturbing the Hamilton-Jacobi equation for photon null geodesics, we demonstrate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-04 Nikko John Leo S. Lobos , Emmanuel T. Rodulfo

A galaxy halo may contain a large number of intermediate mass black holes (IMBHs) with masses in the range of 10^{2-6} solar mass. We propose to directly detect these IMBHs by observing multiply imaged QSO-galaxy or galaxy-galaxy strong…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-08 Kaiki Taro Inoue , Valery Rashkov , Joseph Silk , Piero Madau