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1. Physics and Astronomy › Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations

   Superradiance evolution of black hole shadows revisited

   Roy, Vagnozzi and Visinelli · Physical review. D/Physical review. D. · 2022

   The paper revisits how superradiance by ultra-light bosons could change a black hole's shadow over time, adding accretion, gravitational waves and a second boson, and finds a redefined timescale may be observable.

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   1. UncheckedIn this model, gas accretion and gravitational waves barely matter, and adding a second ultra-light boson does not shorten the black hole shadow's evolution time.“We find that accretion and GW emission play a negligible role in our results (justifying previous simplified analyses), and that contrary to our intuition the inclusion of an additional ultra-light boson does not shorten the BH shadow evolution timescale and hence improve detection prospects.”
   2. Unchecked“However, we point out an important subtlety concerning the observationally meaningful definition of the superradiance-induced BH shadow evolution timescale, which reduces the latter by about an order of magnitude, opening up the possibility of observing the…
   3. UncheckedThe paper reports that the angular size of Sgr A*'s shadow could change by up to 0.6 microarcseconds over as little as 16 years through superradiance.“As a concrete example, we show that the angular size of the shadow of SgrA$^*$ can change by up to $0.6\,μ{\rm as}$ over a period as short as $16$ years, which further strengthens the scientific case for targeting the shadow of SgrA$^*$ with next-generation VLBI arrays.”