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 …

Testing black hole candidates with electromagnetic radiation

C Bambi - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2017 - APS
Astrophysical black hole candidates are thought to be the Kerr black holes of general
relativity, but there is not yet direct observational evidence that the spacetime geometry …

Constraints on black-hole charges with the 2017 EHT observations of M87

P Kocherlakota, L Rezzolla, H Falcke, CM Fromm… - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
Our understanding of strong gravity near supermassive compact objects has recently
improved thanks to the measurements made by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). We use …

Parameter estimation of hairy Kerr black holes from its shadow and constraints from M87

M Afrin, R Kumar, SG Ghosh - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The recently obtained hairy Kerr black holes, due to additional sources or surrounding fluid,
like dark matter, with conserved energy-momentum tensor, have a deviation α and primary …

Tests of loop quantum gravity from the event horizon telescope results of Sgr A

M Afrin, S Vagnozzi, SG Ghosh - The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration's image of the compact object at
the Galactic center is the first direct evidence of the supermassive black hole (BH) Sgr A …

Rotating black holes in 4D Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity and its shadow

R Kumar, SG Ghosh - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Recently there has been a surge of interest in regularizing, a D→ 4 limit of, the Einstein-
Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) gravity, and the resulting regularized 4D EGB gravity has nontrivial …

Gravitational deflection of light and shadow cast by rotating Kalb-Ramond black holes

R Kumar, SG Ghosh, A Wang - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
The nonminimal coupling of the nonzero vacuum expectation value of the self-interacting
antisymmetric Kalb-Ramond field with gravity leads to a power-law hairy black hole having a …

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 …

Shadow cast and Deflection angle of Kerr-Newman-Kasuya spacetime

A Övgün, I Sakallı, J Saavedra - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We study the shadow cast or silhouette generated by a Kerr-Newman-Kasuya (KNK)
spacetime (rotating dyon black hole). It is shown that in addition to the angular momentum of …

Black hole shadow in an asymptotically flat, stationary, and axisymmetric spacetime: The Kerr-Newman and rotating regular black holes

N Tsukamoto - Physical Review D, 2018 - APS
The shadow of a black hole can be one of the strong observational evidences for stationary
black holes. If we see shadows at the center of galaxies, we would say whether the …