A review on analytical studies in Gravitational Lensing

A Chowdhuri, S Ghosh, A Bhattacharyya - Frontiers in Physics, 2023 - frontiersin.org
In this study, we review some current studies on gravitational lensing for black holes, mainly
in the context of general relativity. We mainly focus on the analytical studies related to …

Fundamental physics opportunities with the next-generation event horizon telescope

D Ayzenberg, L Blackburn, R Brito, S Britzen… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
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 galaxies. These …

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 …

Nonlinear electrodynamics effects on the black hole shadow, deflection angle, quasinormal modes and greybody factors

M Okyay, A Övgün - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, we discuss the effects of nonlinear electrodynamics (NED) on non-rotating
black holes, parametrized by the field coupling parameter β and magnetic charge parameter …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Probing a non-linear electrodynamics black hole with thin accretion disk, shadow, and deflection angle with M87* and Sgr A* from EHT

A Uniyal, RC Pantig, A Övgün - Physics of the Dark Universe, 2023 - Elsevier
Non-linear interaction between the electromagnetic fields (EMF) occurs when vacuum
polarization in quantum electrodynamics (QED) happens. The field of non-linear …

Shadows and gravitational weak lensing by the Schwarzschild black hole in the string cloud background with quintessential field

G Mustafa, F Atamurotov, I Hussain… - Chinese …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Shadows and gravitational weak lensing by the Schwarzschild black hole in the string cloud
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