Superradiant evolution of the shadow and photon ring of Sgr

Y Chen, R Roy, S Vagnozzi, L Visinelli - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
Ultralight bosons can affect the dynamics of spinning black holes (BHs) via superradiant
instability, which can lead to a time evolution of the supermassive BH shadow. We study …

The Galactic Center as a laboratory for theories of gravity and dark matter

M De Laurentis, I De Martino… - Reports on Progress in …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Galactic Center (GC) of the Milky Way, thanks to its proximity, allows to perform
astronomical observations that investigate physical phenomena at the edge of astrophysics …

[PDF][PDF] Fundamental physics opportunities with the next-generation event horizon telescope

D Ayzenberg, L Blackburn, R Brito… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - researchgate.net
Abstract The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration recently published the first
images of the supermassive black holes in the cores of the Messier 87 and Milky Way …

Using the motion of S2 to constrain scalar clouds around Sgr A

A Foschi, R Abuter, N Aimar… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The motion of S2, one of the stars closest to the Galactic Centre, has been measured
accurately and used to study the compact object at the centre of the Milky Way. It is …

Photon ring astrometry for superradiant clouds

Y Chen, X Xue, R Brito, V Cardoso - Physical review letters, 2023 - APS
Gravitational atoms produced from the superradiant extraction of rotational energy of
spinning black holes can reach energy densities significantly higher than that of dark matter …

Exploring dark matter spike distribution around the Galactic centre with stellar orbits

ZQ Shen, GW Yuan, CZ Jiang, YLS Tsai… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Precise measurements of the stellar orbits around Sagittarius A* have established the
existence of a supermassive black hole (SMBH) at the Galactic centre (GC). Due to the …

[HTML][HTML] Probing a black-bounce-Reissner–Nordström spacetime with precessing and periodic motion

J Zhang, Y Xie - The European Physical Journal C, 2022 - Springer
We investigate the precessing and periodic orbits of a test timelike particle around the black-
bounce-Reissner–Nordström spacetime which is characterized by its charge and bounce …

Stringent axion constraints with Event Horizon Telescope polarimetric measurements of M87

Y Chen, Y Liu, RS Lu, Y Mizuno, J Shu, X Xue… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The hitherto unprecedented angular resolution of the Event Horizon Telescope has created
exciting opportunities in the search for new physics. Recently, the linear polarization of …

[HTML][HTML] The dark mass signature in the orbit of S2

G Heißel, T Paumard, G Perrin, F Vincent - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2022 - aanda.org
Context. The Schwarzschild precession of star S2, which orbits the massive black hole at the
centre of the Milky Way, has recently been detected with the result of∼ 12 arcmin per orbit …

Gravitational lensing of a Schwarzschild-like black hole in Kalb-Ramond gravity

ELB Junior, JTSS Junior, FSN Lobo, ME Rodrigues… - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
In this paper, we investigate the gravitational lensing effect for the Schwarzschild-like black
hole space-time in the background of a Kalb-Ramond (KR) field proposed by Yang et …