2016/10/04 by Songbai Chen, Jiliang Jing, Chen, Songbai +1
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1610.00886
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Zhang have obtained recently a twisted rotating black hole metric, which is a vacuum solution in four-dimensional Einstein gravity. This black hole solution has a rotation parameter, but without the total angular moment. Here, we have investigated the shadow casted by a twisted rotating black hole. Our results show that the shape of the shadow of the twisted rotating black hole is a standard round disk and does not depend on the inclination angle of the observer. It means that although the twisted rotating black hole has a rotation parameter, its shadow possesses the same behaviors as the common static black hole rather than the usual Kerr-like black holes. Moreover, we find that the marginally circular orbit radius of photon is independent of the direction of photon around the black hole. The value of the marginally circular orbit radius of photon and the size of shadow increase monotonously with the rotation parameter.