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The horizon-scale images of supermassive black holes (BHs) by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration (EHT) have provided new opportunities to test general relativity and other theories of gravity. In view of future projects, such as the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-12 Akhil Uniyal , Indu K. Dihingia , Yosuke Mizuno , Luciano Rezzolla

Black hole (BH) shadow observations and gravitational wave astronomy have become crucial approaches for exploring BH physics and testing gravitational theories in extreme environments. This paper investigates the charged black hole with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-16 Lai Zhao , Meirong Tang , Zhaoyi Xu

This paper investigates the photon ring and shadow structure of the Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole in the scalar-tensor-vector gravitational framework. The black hole is characterized by the ( MOG) parameter (\alpha) and the charge (Q).…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-04 Qiao Yue , Zhaoyi Xu , Meirong Tang

In this paper, we construct an effective rotating loop quantum black hole (LQBH) solution, starting from the spherical symmetric LQBH by applying the Newman-Janis algorithm modified by Azreg-A\"{i}nou's non-complexification procedure, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-11 Cheng Liu , Tao Zhu , Qiang Wu , Kimet Jusufi , Mubasher Jamil , Mustapha Azreg-Aïnou , Anzhong Wang

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration observed ring images called the shadows of M87* and Sagittarius~A* (Sgr~A*), which are supermassive objects in M87 and our galaxy, respectively, and their general relativistic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-04 Naoki Tsukamoto , Ryotaro Kase

The shadows cast by non-rotating and rotating modified gravity (MOG) black holes are determined by the two parameters mass $M$ and angular momentum $J=Ma$. The sizes of the shadows cast by the spherically symmetric static Schwarzschild-MOG…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-26 J. W. Moffat

Recent shadow images of Sgr A and M87 captured by Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration confirms the existence of black holes or their possible alternatives in the center of galaxies. On the other hand, the new image of Sgr A in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-16 Fateme Aliyan , Kourosh Nozari

Our Galactic Center, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), is believed to harbour a supermassive black hole (BH), as suggested by observations tracking individual orbiting stars. Upcoming sub-millimetre very-long-baseline-interferometry (VLBI) images of…

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has recently delivered the first resolved images of M87*, the supermassive black hole in the center of the M87 galaxy. These images were produced using 230 GHz observations performed in 2017 April.…

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

We examine the possibility for the existence of gravitomagnetic monopole ($n_*$) in M87* by using the results obtained from its first Event Horizon Telescope image. By numerically deducing the shadow sizes in Kerr-Taub-NUT (KTN) spacetime,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-28 M. Ghasemi-Nodehi , Chandrachur Chakraborty , Qingjuan Yu , Youjun Lu

Observations of the black hole shadow of supermassive black holes, such as Sagittarius A* at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, allow us to study the properties of black holes and the nature of strong-field gravity. According to the Kerr…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-14 Dimitry Ayzenberg , Nicolas Yunes

Recent observational data from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration provide convincing realistic evidence for the existence of black hole rotation. From a phenomenological perspective, a recently proposed stable rotating regular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-15 Chen-Hao Xie , Yu Zhang , Qi Sun , Qi-Quan Li , Peng-Fei Duan

Imaging of the shadow around supermassive black hole (SMBH) horizon with a very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) is recognized recently as a powerful tool for experimental testing of Einstein's General relativity. The Event Horizon…

We investigate the observational signatures of a quantum-corrected Reissner-Nordstr\"om (RN) black hole to constrain Planck-scale modifications to spacetime geometry using current astrophysical data. By analyzing the null geodesic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-18 Nikko John Leo S. Lobos , Virginia C. Fernandez

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

Latest advances in effective quantum gravity propose a quantum-corrected black hole solution that avoids Cauchy horizons. This paper studies the images of this black hole when illuminated by a static thin accretion disk and explores the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-26 Shilong Huang , Jiawei Chen , Jinsong Yang

Recently, a black hole model in loop quantum gravity has been proposed by Lewandowski, Ma, Yang and Zhang (Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{130}, 101501 (2023)). The metric tensor of the quantum black hole (QBH) is a suitably modified Schwarzschild…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-30 Jing-Peng Ye , Zhi-Qing He , Ai-Xu Zhou , Zi-Yang Huang , Jia-Hui Huang

This study probes spacetime solutions within Einstein-Bumblebee gravity, a modified gravitational framework incorporating spontaneous Lorentz symmetry violation through a vector field mechanism. By introducing a cosmological constant into…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-04 Reggie C. Pantig , Shubham Kala , Ali Övgün , Nikko John Leo S. Lobos

The Event Horizon Telescope is a millimeter VLBI array that aims to take the first pictures of the black holes in the center of the Milky Way and of the M87 galaxy, with horizon scale resolution. Measurements of the shape and size of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Dimitrios Psaltis