Black Hole Shadows in Verlinde's Emergent Gravity

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We study the effect of baryonic matter and apparent dark matter on black hole shadow in Verlinde's Emergent Gravity.

• To do so, we consider different baryonic mass profiles and an optically-thin disk region described by a gas in a radial free fall around the black hole.
• Assuming that most of the baryonic matter in the galaxy is located near the galactic center surrounding a supermassive black hole, we use two models of power law mass profile for the baryonic matter to study the effect of apparent dark matter on the shadow and the corresponding intensity.
• We find that the effect of the surrounding matter on the shadow size using observational values is small, however, it becomes significant when the surrounding baryonic matter increases.