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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…

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Recently, two new spherically symmetric black hole models with covariance have been proposed in effective quantum gravity. Based on these models, we use the modified Newman-Janis algorithm to generate two rotating quantum-corrected black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-15 Zhenglong Ban , Jiawei Chen , Jinsong Yang

In recent years, the study of quantum effects near the event horizon of black hole (BH) has attracted extensive attention. It has become one of the important methods to explore BH quantum properties by using the related properties of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-10 Zhaoyi Xu , Meirong Tang

We present a study on quantum gravity effects on the shadow of a rotating black hole (BH) obtained in the setting of the asymptotically safe gravity. The rotating metric, which results from a static regular one recently presented in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-13 Luis A. Sánchez

Inspired by the two different dark matter frameworks that were studied recently: one that arises from the non-local effects of entanglement entropy as emergent gravity (characterized by the parameter $\xi(M)$, and zero-point scale length…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-11 Reggie C. Pantig

Based on string theory, loop quantum gravity, black hole physics, and other theories of quantum gravity, physicists have proposed generalized uncertainty principle (GUP) modifications. In this work, within the framework of GUP-gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-28 Meirong Tang

Gravity models given by higher-order scalar curvature corrections are believed to bear important consequences. The Einstein-Bel-Robinson gravity, with quartic curvature modification, motivated Sajadi et al to explore static spherically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-11 B. Hamil , B. C. Lütfüoğlu

Consideration of extra spatial dimensions is motivated by the unification of gravity with other interactions, the achievement of the ultimate framework of quantum gravity, and fundamental problems in particle physics and cosmology. Much…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-10 Kourosh Nozari , Sara Saghafi , Ali Mohammadpour

We investigate black holes with non-minimal couplings between the electromagnetic field and spacetime curvature, focusing on their event horizons, shadows, and photon rings. Such couplings can naturally arise from both classical effective…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-21 Zhixiang Yin , Changjun Gao , Yun-Long Zhang

We analytically investigate the shadows cast by rotating black holes in the asymptotically safe gravity (ASG) by deriving complete null geodesics and observables using the Hamilton-Jacobi equation and Carter separable method. It turns out…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-13 Rahul Kumar , Balendra Pratap Singh , Sushant G. Ghosh

We calculate the photon sphere $r_{ph}$ and critical curve $b_c$ for the quantum corrected Schwarzschild black hole, finding that they violate an universal inequalities proved for asymptotically flat black holes which satisfy null energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-01 Jun Peng , Minyong Guo , Xing-Hui Feng

For the short hairs that have a significant impact only near the event horizon, studying their strong gravitational lensing effects is of great significance for revealing the properties of these hairs. In this study, we systematically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-29 Lai Zhao , Meirong Tang , Zhaoyi Xu

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is taking the first images of black holes resolved at horizon scales to measure their shadows and probe accretion physics. A promising avenue for testing the hypothesis that astrophysical black holes are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-17 Lia Medeiros , Dimitrios Psaltis , Feryal Özel

We investigate the shadow of a rotating braneworld black hole in dispersive plasma environments and assess the potential of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observations to constrain braneworld gravity. The spacetime around a rotating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-11 Siddharth Kumar Sahoo , Indrani Banerjee

With the recent release of the black hole image of Sgr A* alongside the earlier image of M87*, one can achieve an in-depth understanding of gravitational physics at the horizon scale. According to the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT)…

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We study the motion of uncharged particles and photons in the background of a magnetically charged Euler-Heisenberg (EH) black hole (BH) with scalar hair. The spacetime can be asymptotically (A)dS or flat. After investigating particle…

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Within quantum-gravity approaches and beyond, different mechanisms for singularity resolution in black holes exist. Under a set of assumptions that we spell out in detail, these mechanisms leave their imprint in shadow images of spherically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-01 Astrid Eichhorn , Aaron Held , Philipp-Vincent Johannsen

The recent discovery of the novel four-dimensional static and spherically symmetric Gauss-Bonnet black hole provides a promising bed to test Gauss-Bonnet gravity by using astronomical observations [Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 081301 (2020)]. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-22 Shao-Wen Wei , Yu-Xiao Liu

Using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), the gravitationally lensed rings around the supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in Messier 87 (M87) and Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) have now been successfully imaged at a resolution under 10 gravitational…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-31 Dhanya G. Nair , Neil M. Nagar , Venkatessh Ramakrishnan , Maciek Wielgus , Vicente Arratia , Thomas P. Krichbaum , Xinyue A. Zhang , Angelo Ricarte , Silpa S. , Joaquín Hernández-Yévenes , Nicole M. Ford , Bidisha Bandyopadhyay , Mark Gurwell , Roman Burridge , Dominic W. Pesce , Sheperd S. Doeleman , Jae-Young Kim , Daewon Kim , Michael Janssen , Sebastiano D. von Fellenberg , Christian M. Fromm , Deokhyeong Lee , Heino Falcke , Jan Wagner , Geoffrey C. Bower , Anne-Kathrin Baczko , Dong-Jin Kim , Kazunori Akiyama , Keiichi Asada , Patricia Arevalo , Hayley Bignall , Lindy Blackburn , Avery E. Broderick , Andreas Brunthaler , Chi-kwan Chan , Akihiro Doi , Vincent L. Fish , Edward Fomalont , José L. Gómez , Daryl Haggard , Kazuhiro Hada , Rodrigo Herrera-Camus , Daniel Hoak , David Hughes , Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo , Svetlana Jorstad , Michael D. Johnson , Tomohisa Kawashima , Garrett K. Keating , Preeti Kharb , Jun Yi Koay , Shoko Koyama , Cheng-Yu Kuo , Nathan W. C. Leigh , Paulina Lira , Michael Lindqvist , Andrei P. Lobanov , Wen-Ping Lo , Ru-Sen Lu , Sera Markoff , Nicholas R. MacDonald , Mary Loli Martínez-Aldama , Lynn D. Matthews , Satoki Matsushita , Mar Mezcua , Monika Moscibrodzka , Hendrik Müller , Hiroshi Nagai , Masanori Nakamura , Priyamvada Natarajan , Gopal Narayanan , Michael A. Nowak , Héctor Raúl Olivares Sánchez , Jongho Park , Dimitrios Psaltis , Hung-Yi Pu , Oliver Porth , Ramprasad Rao , Cormac Reynolds , Rodrigo Reeves , Cristina Romero-Cañizales , Eduardo Ros , Helge Rottmann , Alan L. Roy , Dominik Schleicher , Tuomas Savolainen , C. M. Violette Impellizzeri , Ezequiel Treister , Kaj Wiik , J. Anton Zensus

The half opening angle of a Kerr black-hole shadow is always equal to (5+-0.2)GM/Dc^2, where M is the mass of the black hole and D is its distance from the Earth. Therefore, measuring the size of a shadow and verifying whether it is within…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-02 Dimitrios Psaltis , Feryal Ozel , Chi-Kwan Chan , Daniel P. Marrone