The glow of eternal black holes

arXiv:2608.05270 · gr-qc, astro-ph.HE · Submitted 2026-08-05 · Read on arXiv

Vladimir Strokov

gr-qc, astro-ph.HE

Submitted: 2026-08-05

Comments: 30 pages, 6 figures; for associated code, see https://github.com/CosmoVlad/white-hole-shadow

Code: https://github.com/CosmoVlad/white-hole-shadow

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Event Horizon Telescope — 15× in this paper
• Core — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Accretion Flows — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Conservation Laws — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Decoupling — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Quantization — 1× in this paper · explained in 12 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

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• Shadows and strong gravitational lensing: a brief review
• An Illustrated History of Black Hole Imaging : Personal Recollections (1972-2002)
• Black Hole Shadows, Photon Rings, and Lensing Rings
• Testing the No-Hair Theorem with Observations in the Electromagnetic Spectrum: II. Black-Hole Images
• On the Observable Shape of Black Hole Photon Rings
• Universal Polarimetric Signatures of the Black Hole Photon Ring
• Polarimetric Imaging of the Massive Black Hole at the Galactic Center
• Imaging Optically-Thin Hot Spots Near the Black Hole Horizon of Sgr A* at Radio and Near-Infrared Wavelengths
• Simulating the Emission and Outflows from Accretion Disks
• Imaging the Black Hole Silhouette of M87: Implications for Jet Formation and Black Hole Spin
• Radiative Models of Sgr A* from GRMHD Simulations
• The size of the jet launching region in M87
• GRMHD simulations of accretion onto Sgr A*: How important are radiative losses?
• Imaging the Supermassive Black Hole Shadow and Jet Base of M87 with the Event Horizon Telescope
• Fast Variability and mm/IR flares in GRMHD Models of Sgr A* from Strong-Field Gravitational Lensing
• General relativistic magnetohydrodynamical simulations of the jet in M87
• The Black Hole Accretion Code
• The role of electron heating physics in images and variability of the Galactic Centre black hole Sagittarius A*

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