Black hole images: A review

S Chen, J **g, 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 …

Horizon-scale tests of gravity theories and fundamental physics from the Event Horizon Telescope image of Sagittarius A

S Vagnozzi, R Roy, YD Tsai, L Visinelli… - … and Quantum Gravity, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Horizon-scale images of black holes (BHs) and their shadows have opened an
unprecedented window onto tests of gravity and fundamental physics in the strong-field …

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 …

Superradiance evolution of black hole shadows revisited

R Roy, S Vagnozzi, L Visinelli - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
Black hole (BH) shadows can be used to probe new physics in the form of ultralight particles
via the phenomenon of superradiant instability. By directly affecting the BH mass and spin …

Magnetically charged black holes from non-linear electrodynamics and the Event Horizon Telescope

A Allahyari, M Khodadi, S Vagnozzi… - Journal of Cosmology …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Non-linear electrodynamics (NLED) theories are well-motivated extensions of QED in the
strong field regime, and have long been studied in the search for regular black hole (BH) …

Gravitational decoupling for axially symmetric systems and rotating black holes

E Contreras, J Ovalle, R Casadio - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
We introduce a systematic and direct procedure to generate hairy rotating black holes by
deforming a spherically symmetric seed solution. We develop our analysis in the context of …

Black holes with scalar hair in light of the Event Horizon Telescope

M Khodadi, A Allahyari, S Vagnozzi… - Journal of Cosmology …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Searching for violations of the no-hair theorem (NHT) is a powerful way to test gravity, and
more generally fundamental physics, particularly with regards to the existence of additional …

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 …