2016

Shadows of Kerr black holes with and without scalar hair

Cunha, Pedro V. P., Herdeiro, Carlos A. R., Radu, Eugen et al.

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For an observer, the Black Hole (BH) shadow is the BH's apparent image in the sky due to the gravitational lensing of nearby radiation, emitted by an external source.

  • A recent class of solutions dubbed Kerr BHs with scalar hair possess smaller shadows than the corresponding Kerr BHs and, under some conditions, novel exotic shadow shapes can arise.
  • Thus, these hairy BHs could potentially provide new shadow templates for future experiments such as the Event Horizon Telescope.
  • In order to obtain the shadows, the backward ray-tracing algorithm is briefly introduced, followed by numerical examples of shadows of Kerr BHs with scalar hair contrasting with the Kerr analogues.

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