Published June 1, 2020 | Version v1
Journal article

Black hole shadow in the view of freely falling observers

  • 1. Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049 (China)

Description

First sketch of black hole from M87 galaxy was obtained by Event Horizon Telescope, recently. As appearance of black hole shadow reflects space-time geometry of black holes, observations of black hole shadow may be a promising way to test general relativity in strong field regime. In this paper, we focus on angular radius of spherical black hole shadow with respect to freely falling observers. In the framework of general relativity, aberration formulation and angular radius-gravitational redshift relation are presented. For the sake of intuitive, we consider parametrized Schwarzschild black hole and Schwarzschild-de Sitter black hole as representative examples. We find that the freely in-falling observers would observe finite size of shadow, when they go through inner horizon. For observers freely falling from the outer horizon of Schwarzschild-de Sitter black hole, we find that the angular radius of the shadows could increase even when the observers move farther from the black hole.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2020/06/055

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Journal Volume
2020
Journal Issue
06
Journal Page Range
p. 055
ISSN
1475-7516