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We examine the shadow of a rotating Kaluza-Klein black hole in Einstein gravity coupled to a Maxwell field and a dilaton. The size and the shape of the shadow depend on the mass, the charge, and the angular momentum of the compact object.…

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This work investigates the optical properties of a static, spherically symmetric, electrically charged black hole in f(R) gravity coupled to Euler-Heisenberg(EH) nonlinear electrodynamics(NLED). By analyzing photon trajectories in this…

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This study investigates the astronomical implications of the Ghosh-Kumar rotating Black Hole (BH), particularly its behaviour on shadow images, illuminated by celestial light sources and equatorial thin accretion disks. Our research…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-19 Chen-Yu Yang , M. Israr Aslam , Xiao-Xiong Zeng , Rabia Saleem

The presence of a quintessence-like field can influence the black hole shadow through three primary mechanisms: the dynamics of accretion flows, the trajectories of photons, and the motion of observers. Unlike standard shadow analyses that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-13 Ji-Wen Li , Zi-Liang Wang , Tao-Tao Sui

We study the shadow produced by a spinning Kaluza-Klein black hole in Einstein gravity coupled to a Maxwell field and a dilaton. The size and the shape of the shadow depend on the mass, the charge, and the angular momentum. We find that,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-03-01 Leonardo Amarilla , Ernesto F. Eiroa

We explore a simple spherical model of optically thin accretion on a Schwarzschild black hole, and study the properties of the image as seen by a distant observer. We show that a dark circular region in the center --- a shadow --- is always…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-11 Ramesh Narayan , Michael D. Johnson , Charles F. Gammie

The apparent angular size of the shadow of a black hole in an expanding Universe is redshift-dependent. Since cosmological redshifts change with time - known as the redshift drift - all redshift-dependent quantities acquire a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-16 Emmanuel Frion , Leonardo Giani , Tays Miranda

In this paper, under the illumination of thin disk accretion, we have employed the ray-tracing method to carefully investigate shadows and rings of the Kehagias-Sfetsos(KS) black hole in deformed Ho\v{r}ava-Lifshitz(HL) gravity. The results…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-30 Guo-Ping Li , Ke-Jian He

Recently, two new quantum-corrected black hole models satisfying covariance have been proposed within the framework of effective quantum gravity. In this paper, we study how the quantum parameter $\zeta$ affects the optical properties of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-13 Jiawei Chen , Jinsong Yang

In Einstein-{\AE}ther theory, the Lorentz symmetry is locally broken in the high-energy regime due to the presence of the{\AE}ther field. This shall leave significant imprint on astronomical observation. In this paper, we investigate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-14 Hui-Min Wang , Zi-Chao Lin , Shao-Wen Wei

In this paper, we explore the effect of non-linear electrodynamics (NLED) parameters and magnetic charges on various aspects of black holes, like how they bend light, how they emit radiation, and how they appear as a shadow by considering a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-11 Akhil Uniyal , Sayan Chakrabarti , Reggie C. Pantig , Ali Övgün

Thanks for the releasing image of supermassive black holes (BHs) by the event horizon telescope (EHT) at the heart of the $M87$ galaxy. After the discovery of this mysterious object, scientists paid attention to exploring the BH shadow…

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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

We study black hole imaging in the context of geometrically thick accretion disks in Schwarzschild spacetime. By decomposing the emitting region into a set of one-dimensional luminous segments, each characterized by its inclination angle…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-16 Zi-Liang Wang

We have studied the shadows of a Schwarzschild black hole surrounded by a Bach-Weyl ring through the backward ray-tracing method. The presence of Bach-Weyl ring leads to that the photon dynamical system is non-integrable and then chaos…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-19 Mingzhi Wang , Songbai Chen , Jieci Wang , Jiliang Jing

Recent observations of the supermassive black holes M87* and Sgr A* by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) have opened new avenues for testing gravity theories through black hole shadow observables. These observations offer a means to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-05 Mohsen Fathi , Yassine Sekhmani

We investigate how the newly obtained static black hole in bumblebee gravity affects the behavior of accreting matter and its observable signatures. The Lorentz-violating parameter that characterizes this geometry modifies photon…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-09 Yuxuan Shi , A. A. Araújo Filho

This research delves into the optical characteristics of stationary, spherically symmetric black holes. These black holes follow the Konoplya-Zhidenko deformation rule in arbitrary gravity theories. This research finds that the effects of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-28 Qiao Yue , Zhaoyi Xu , Meirong Tang

The horizon-scale images of black holes obtained with the Event Horizon Telescope have provided new probes of their metrics and tests of General Relativity. The images are characterized by a bright, near circular ring from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-28 Feryal Ozel , Dimitrios Psaltis , Ziri Younsi

The projection effect of an anisotropic accretion disk causes its electromagnetic radiation to depend on the emission angle. Although this dependency has the potential to influence the observational characteristics of black holes, it has…

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