Black hole shadow in an expanding universe with a cosmological constant
Volker PerlickZARM, University of Bremen, 28359 Bremen, GermanyOleg Yu. TsupkoSpace Research Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Profsoyuznaya 84/32, Moscow 117997, RussiaГ. С. Бисноватый-КоганNational Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute), Kashirskoe Shosse 31, Moscow 115409, Russia
2018en
ABI
Abstract
We analytically investigate the influence of a cosmic expansion on the shadow of the Schwarzschild black hole. We suppose that the expansion is driven by a cosmological constant only and use the Kottler (or Schwarzschild--de Sitter) spacetime as a model for a Schwarzschild black hole embedded in a de Sitter universe. We calculate the angular radius of the shadow for an observer who is comoving with the cosmic expansion. It is found that the angular radius of the shadow shrinks to a nonzero finite value if the comoving observer approaches infinity.
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