The no-hair theorem and black hole shadows

TL;DR

This paper derives rotating black hole solutions with scalar hair and analyzes how these hairs influence black hole shadows, providing potential tests for the no-hair theorem with future EHT observations.

Contribution

It presents the first exact rotating black hole solutions with scalar hair and explores their impact on black hole shadows, advancing understanding of black hole quantum effects.

Findings

Hairs cause non-monotonic effects on shadows

Scalar charge influences shadow shape and size

Different hairs lead to intersection phenomena in shadows

Abstract

The successful observation of M87 supermassive black hole by the Black Hole Event Horizon Telescope(EHT) provides a very good opportunity to study the theory of gravity. In this work, we obtain the exact solution for the short hair black hole (BH) in the rotation situation, and calculate in detail how hairs affect the BH shadow. For the exact solution part, using the Newman-Janis algorithm, we generalize the spherically symmetric short-hair black hole metric to the rotation case (space-time lie element (2.25)). For the BH shadow part, we study two hairy BH models. In model 1, the properties of scalar hair are determined by the parameters $\alpha_{0}$ and $L$. In model 2, the scalar hair of the BH is short hair. In this model, the shape of the BH shadow is determined by scalar charge $Q_{m}$ and $k$. In general, various BH hairs have different effects on the shadows, such as non-monotonic properties and intersection phenomena mentioned in this work. Using these characteristics, it is possible to test the no-hair theorem in future EHT observations, so as to have a deeper understanding of the quantum effect of BHs. In future work, we will use numerical simulations to study the effects of various hairs on BHs and their observed properties.