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Shadows and Observational Images of a Schwarzschild-like Black Hole Surrounded by a Dehnen-type Dark Matter Halo

arXiv:2505.20115 · doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2025/10/065

Abstract

This paper investigates the optical appearance of a Schwarzschild-like black hole (BH) surrounded by a Dehnen-(1, 4, 5/2) type dark matter (DM) halo, with a focus on how the DM halo's density and radius influence the BH's shadow and photon ring. First, the radius of the BH's event horizon and the equation of motion for photons were derived, and observational data from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) for M87* were used to constrain the parameters and of the DM halo. Afterward, by varying the values of and , key parameters such as the effective potential of photons, the critical impact parameter , the radius of the innermost stable circular orbit, and the radius of the photon sphere were calculated for each case. It was found that as and increase, the above mentioned parameters all show an increasing trend. Subsequently, we investigated the optical appearance of the BH illuminated by two types of accretion models: optically and geometrically thin disk models and spherical accretion models. The findings indicate that as and increase, the peak of the received intensity shifts toward a higher impact parameter , resulting in a distinct optical appearance.

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