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In this work, we examine the optical behaviors and thermodynamic phase structures using shadow analysis for four $\mathbb{S}\mathbb{T}\mathbb{U}$ black holes. The study is conducted for four cases of charge configurations on the parameter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-25 Yassine Sekhmani , Dhruba Jyoti Gogoi , Ratbay Myrzakulov , Giuseppe Gaetano Luciano , Javlon Rayimbaev

Inspired by the observations of supermassive black hole M87* in \emph{Event Horizon Telescope }(EHT) experiment, a remarkable surge in black hole physics is to use the black hole shadow's observables to distinguish general relativity (GR)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-20 Yuan Meng , Xiao-Mei Kuang , Zi-Yu Tang

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is providing unprecedented high-resolution images of supermassive black holes. These images are fundamentally related to properties of the luminous accretion disks, since black holes themselves produce no…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-13 Alexandra G. Guerrero , Daniel E. Holz

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 characteristics and images of Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton (EMD) black holes are examined in this paper, focusing on their effective potential, photon trajectories, and images with thin and thick accretion disks. We found that the shadow…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-12 Gang Chen , Sen Guo , Jia-Shuo Li , Yu-Xiang Huang , Li-Fang Li , Peng Xu

Loop quantum gravity inspired partial polymer quantization in four-dimensional spacetime leads to a globally regular black hole with a single horizon. The polymerized black hole metric is characterized by the minimum length parameter $k$,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-14 Rahul Kumar Walia

The observed iron K-alpha fluorescence lines in Seyfert-1 galaxies provide strong evidence for an accretion disk near a supermassive black hole as a source of the line emission. These lines serve as powerful probes for examining the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-10 Vladimir I. Pariev , Benjamin C. Bromley

We investigated the shadow and optical appearance of Bardeen black hole (BH) immersed in perfect-fluid dark matter (PFDM). Using the EHT data, we find that the DM parameter is restricted to a narrow allowed range, confined to values of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-02 Haiyuan Feng , Ziqiang Cai , Hao-Peng Yan , Rong-Jia Yang , Jinjun Zhang

In this paper, we fist consider the shadow radius of a quantum corrected black hole proposed recently, and provide a bound on the correction parameter based on the observational data of Sgr A*. Then, the effects of the correction parameter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-17 Yu-Heng Shu , Jia-Hui Huang

The groundbreaking image of the black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy has raised questions at the intersection of observational astronomy and black hole physics. How well can the radius of a black hole shadow can be measured, and can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-02 Adam Bauer , Alejandro Cárdenas-Avendaño , Charles F. Gammie , Nicolás Yunes

This work investigates observational properties, namely the shadow and photon ring structure, of emission profiles originating near compact objects. In particular, we consider a distorted and deformed compact object characterised by two…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-16 Shokoufe Faraji , João Luís Rosa

The accretion efficiency for individual black holes is very difficult to determine accurately. There are many factors that can influence each step of the calculation, such as the dust and host galaxy contribution to the observed luminosity,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 S. I. Raimundo , A. C. Fabian , R. V. Vasudevan , P. Gandhi , Jianfeng Wu

We investigate the shadows, accretion disks, and observational images of rotating Ay\'{o}n-Beato-Garc\'{i}a black holes characterized by mass $ M $ , spin $ a $ , and electric charge $ \zeta $ . Our analysis reveals that the shadow size…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-15 Zhenglong Ban , Meng Chen , Rong-Jia Yang

Taking the quantum electrodynamics (QED) effect into account, we investigate the geometrical-optics appearance of the Euler-Heisenberg (EH) black hole (BH) under the different accretion flows context, which depends on the BH space-time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-14 Xiao-Xiong Zeng , Ke-Jian He , Guo-Ping Li , En-Wei Liang , Sen Guo

This paper investigates the observable properties of a Kerr-Sen black hole surrounded by a thin accretion disk, focusing on the impact of the black hole's spin and charge on the image. Using ray-tracing techniques, we conduct a detailed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-24 Pei Wang , Sen Guo , Li-Fang Li , Zhan-Feng Mai , Bo-Feng Wu , Wen-Hao Deng , Qing-Quan Jiang

The interest in the implications that astrophysical observations have for the understanding of the structure of black holes has grown since the first detection of gravitational waves. Many arguments that are put forward in order to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-31 Anna Zulianello , Raúl Carballo-Rubio , Stefano Liberati , Stefano Ansoldi

Black Hole Explorer (BHEX) is a space VLBI mission concept, which can probe the black hole spacetime and the plasma properties including the magnetic fields of the accretion flows and relativistic jets. We propose science cases anticipated…

The inner shadow of a black hole, as a projection of the event horizon, is regarded as a potential tool for testing gravitational theories and constraining system parameters. Whether this holds in the case of a tilted accretion disk…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-21 Shiyang Hu , Dan Li , Chen Deng

Black holes described by the Kerr metric can have a theoretical maximum dimensionless spin parameter of $a_\bullet = 1$, but several effects may limit the maximum spin parameter in astrophysical systems. We perform general relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-23 Tegan A. Thomas , Angelo Ricarte , Cora Prather , Hyerin Cho

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