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In this paper, we investigate the shadow and optical appearance of the Bardeen black hole surrounded by perfect fluid dark matter (PFDM) illuminated by various static accretions. First, we find that as the dark matter parameter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-16 Hui Zeng , Yuan Meng

The ring-like images of the two supermassive black holes captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) provide powerful probes of the physics of accretion flows at horizon scales. Specifically, the brightness asymmetry in the images carries…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-24 J. Cole Faggert , Feryal Özel , Dimitrios Psaltis

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration unveiled event-horizon-scale images of the supermassive black holes (SMBHs) M87* and Sgr A*, revealing a dark brightness depression, namely the black hole shadow, whose shape and size may…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-27 Misba Afrin , Sushant G. Ghosh

Sub milli-arcsecond astrometry and imaging of the black hole Sgr A* at the Galactic centre may become possible in the near future at infrared and sub-millimetre wavelengths. Motivated by observations of short-term infrared and X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Avery E. Broderick , Abraham Loeb

Electromagnetic observations have been used over the past decades to understand the nature of black holes and the material around them. Our ability to learn about the fundamental physics relies on our understanding of two key ingredients in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-24 Alejandro Cardenas-Avendano , Jaxen Godfrey , Nicolas Yunes , Anne Lohfink

Based on the backward ray-tracing method, this paper numerically investigates the shadow and polarization images of rotating Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) black hole within the framework of a thin disk model. We systematically analyze the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-10 Bing-Bing Chen , Chen-Yu Yang , Deyou Chen , Ke-Jian He

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has guided strong-field gravitational physics by providing the first direct images of the supermassive black holes M87* and Sagittarius A*. The EHT observations offer unprecedented opportunities to test…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-16 Towheed Ahmad Nengroo , Shafqat Ul Islam , Sushant G. Ghosh

This study explores spherically symmetric non-linear electrodynamics black holes and their effects on light propagation. We derive the governing metric, revealing radial coordinate dynamics within the event horizon. We analyze photon…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-06 Akhil Uniyal , Sayan Chakrabarti , Mohsen Fathi , Ali Övgün

By employing ray-tracing techniques, we investigate the shadow images of rotating Bardeen black holes surrounded by perfect fluid dark matter. In this work, two models are considered for the background light source, namely the celestial…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-19 Ke-Jian He , Guo-Ping Li , Chen-Yu Yang , Xiao-Xiong Zeng

We examine the shadow cast by a Kerr black hole, focusing on constraints on photons corresponding to different shadow boundaries. The photons are related to different orbital ranges and impact parameter values, creating a map of the shadow…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-24 D. Pugliese , Z. Stuchlık

The black hole shadow, first observed by the Event Horizon Telescope in 2017, is the newest method for studying black holes and understanding gravity. Much work has gone into understanding the shadow of a Kerr black hole, including all of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-25 Dimitry Ayzenberg

We present estimates for the number of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) for which the next-generation Event Horizon Telescope (ngEHT) can identify the black hole ``shadow,'' along with estimates for how many black hole masses and spins the…

Accretion disk reflection spectra, including broad iron emission lines, bear the imprints of the strong Doppler shifts and gravitational red-shifts close to black holes. The extremity of these shifts depends on the proximity of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-01-15 J. M. Miller , C. S. Reynolds , A. C. Fabian , G. Miniutti , L. C. Gallo

Motivated by recent Event Horizon Telescope findings, we investigate constrained optics of rotating black holes in Einstein-Maxwell-scalar gravity theory. Precisely, we mainly study the parameter effects on two relevant optical concepts…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-19 Hajar Belmahi

We present an extended scheme for the calculation of the profiles of emission lines from accretion discs around rotating black holes. The scheme includes discs with angular momenta which are parallel and antiparallel with respect to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 T. Dauser , J. Wilms , C. S. Reynolds , L. W. Brenneman

We investigate the observable signatures -- the shadow, the throat silhouette, and the image of a thin accretion disk -- for a family of static, spherically symmetric wormholes with an arbitrary throat profile. First, we derive expressions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-20 Valeria A. Ishkaeva , Sergey V. Sushkov

Based on a new estimation of their thickness, the global properties of relativistic slim accretion disks are investigated in this work. The resulting emergent spectra are calculated using the relativistic ray-tracing method, in which we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Guang-Xing Li , Ye-Fei Yuan , Xinwu Cao

This paper primarily investigates the optical characteristics of two minimal Schwarzschild black hole deformations, the Kazakov-Solodukhin and Ghosh-Kumar black holes, under different accretion models. The event horizon, photon sphere, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-15 Hong-Er Gong , Junlin Qin , Yusen Wang , Bofeng Wu , Zhan-Feng Mai , Sen Guo , Enwei Liang

The study of black hole (BH) shadows provide crucial insights into the nature of strong gravitational effects and the intricate structure of the spacetime surrounding BHs. In this paper, we explore the shadow of Kerr MOG BH within a plasma…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-30 Saira Yasmin , Khadije Jafarzade , Mubasher Jamil

We investigate the impact of dark matter halos on the gravitational lensing produced by electrically charged, spherically symmetric black holes in the strong-field regime. The study focuses on two dark matter models: the Universal Rotation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-17 Niyaz Uddin Molla , Himanshu Chaudhary , Salvatore Capozziello , Farruh Atamurotov , G. Mustafa , Ujjal Debnath