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gr-qc2026

Two shadows of a single black hole: Vacuum birefringence phenomena within Einstein-nonlinear-electrodynamics

Marco A. A. de Paula, Haroldo C. D. Lima, Pedro V. P. Cunha +2

The paper investigates photon propagation in black holes sourced by a nonlinear electrodynamics model, showing that vacuum birefringence leads to two distinct photon trajectories a…

gr-qc2025

Light rings on stationary axisymmetric spacetimes: blind to the topology and able to coexist

Pedro V. P. Cunha, Carlos A. R. Herdeiro, João P. A. Novo

It has been established that Black Hole (BH) spacetimes obeying some general set of assumptions always possess, at least, one light ring (per rotation sense) [arXiv:2003.06445]. Th…

gr-qc2025

Good tachyons, bad bradyons: role reversal in Einstein-nonlinear-electrodynamics models

Marco A. A. de Paula, Haroldo C. D. Lima Junior, Pedro V. P. Cunha +2

In relativistic mechanics, the 4-velocity and the 4-momentum need not be parallel. This allows their norm to have a different sign. This possibility occurs in nonlinear electrodyna…

gr-qc2025

Backreaction of perturbations around a stable Light Ring

Pedro V. P. Cunha

Light rings (LRs) - closed circular orbits of null geodesics - are key features of both black holes and horizonless ultracompact objects. While unstable LRs are relevant for the ob…

gr-qc2024

Breaking the north-south symmetry: dyonic spinning black holes with synchronized gauged scalar hair

Pedro V. P. Cunha, Carlos A. R. Herdeiro, Eugen Radu +1

We study stationary clouds of a gauged, complex scalar field on a magnetically (and possibly electrically as well) charged Kerr-Newman black hole (BH). The existence of a magnetic…

gr-qc2024

Hypershadows of higher dimensional black objects: a case study of cohomogeneity-one d=5 Myers-Perry

João P. A. Novo, Pedro V. P. Cunha, Carlos A. R. Herdeiro

What does a black hole look like? In 1+3 spacetime dimensions, the optical appearance of a black hole is a bidimensional region in the observer's sky often called the black hole sh…