Black hole images: A review

S Chen, J Jing, WL Qian, B Wang - Science China Physics, Mechanics & …, 2023 - Springer
In recent years, unprecedented progress has been achieved regarding black holes'
observation through the electromagnetic channel. The images of the supermassive black …

Chaotic shadows of black holes: a short review

M Wang, S Chen, J Jing - Communications in Theoretical Physics, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We give a brief review on the formation and the calculation of black hole shadows. Firstly,
we introduce the concept of a black hole shadow and the current works on a variety of black …

Testing the rotational nature of the supermassive object M87* from the circularity and size of its first image

C Bambi, K Freese, S Vagnozzi, L Visinelli - Physical Review D, 2019 - APS
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration has recently released the first image of a
black hole (BH), opening a new window onto tests of general relativity in the strong field …

Hunting for extra dimensions in the shadow of M87

S Vagnozzi, L Visinelli - Physical Review D, 2019 - APS
The Event Horizon Telescope has recently provided the first image of the dark shadow
around the supermassive black hole M87*. The observation of a highly circular shadow …

Shadow and quasinormal modes of a rotating loop quantum black hole

C Liu, T Zhu, Q Wu, K Jusufi, M Jamil, M Azreg-Aïnou… - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
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 …

Testing the nature of Gauss–Bonnet gravity by four-dimensional rotating black hole shadow

SW Wei, YX Liu - The European Physical Journal Plus, 2021 - Springer
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 …

Kerr black holes with synchronised Proca hair: lensing, shadows and EHT constraints

I Sengo, PVP Cunha, CAR Herdeiro… - Journal of Cosmology …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate the gravitational lensing by spinning Proca stars and the shadows and
lensing by Kerr black holes (BHs) with synchronised Proca hair, discussing both theoretical …

Shadows and deflection angle of charged and slowly rotating black holes in Einstein-Æther theory

T Zhu, Q Wu, M Jamil, K Jusufi - Physical Review D, 2019 - APS
In this paper, we study the shadow cast by two types of charged and slowly rotating black
holes in the Einstein-Æther theory of gravity. These two types of black holes correspond to …

[HTML][HTML] Observational appearances of af (R) global monopole black hole illuminated by various accretions

GP Li, KJ He - The European Physical Journal C, 2021 - Springer
In this paper, we explore three simple models of accretions on a global monopole black hole
in f (R) theory, and numerically study the corresponding observational appearances as seen …

Shadows and rings of the Kehagias-Sfetsos black hole surrounded by thin disk accretion

GP Li, KJ He - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, under the illumination of thin disk accretion, we have employed the ray-tracing
method to carefully investigate shadows and rings of the Kehagias-Sfetsos (KS) black hole …