Affiliation:
1. Institute of Convergence Fundamental Studies, School of Natural Sciences , College of Liberal Arts, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Seoul 01811 , Korea
Abstract
ABSTRACT
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has recently observed the image and shadow of the supermassive compact object Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). According to the EHT collaboration, the observed image is consistent with the expected appearance of a Kerr black hole. However, it is well-known that some non-Kerr objects may mimic many of the properties of the Kerr black hole, and hence, their shadows might be consistent with the observed shadow of Sgr A*. In this work, we consider two black hole mimickers and study their shadows. The first mimicker is a rotating generalization of the recently proposed static, spherically symmetric black-bounce space–time by Simpson and Visser where the central Schwarzschild singularity is replaced by a minimal surface. The second one is the γ-metric which is a static, axially-symmetric singular solution of the vacuum Einstein’s equations without an event horizon. We put constraint on the parameters of these black hole mimickers by comparing their shadows with the observed shadow of Sgr A*.
Funder
National Research Foundation of Korea
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Subject
Space and Planetary Science,Astronomy and Astrophysics
Cited by
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