Deflection angle and shadow of slowly rotating black holes in galactic nuclei

Abstract

In this paper, we construct the slowly rotating case of an asymptotically flat supermassive black hole embedded in dark matter using Newman–Janis procedure. Our analysis is carried with respect to the involved parameters including the halo total mass M and the galaxy’s lengthscale \(a_0\). Concretly, we investigate the dark matter impact on the effective potential and the photon sphere. In particular, we find that the lengthscale \(a_0\) controles such potential values. Indeed, for low \(a_0\) values, we find that the halo total mass M decreases the potential values significantly while for high \(a_0\) values such impact is diluted. Regarding the shadow aspects, we show that the shadow size is much smaller for high values of \(a_0\) while the opposite effect is observed when the halo total mass M is increased. By comparing our case to the slowly rotating case, we notice that the former exhibits a shadow shifted from its center to the left side. Finally, we compute the deflection angle in the weak-limit approximation and inspect the dark matter parameters influence. By ploting such quantity, we observe that one should expect lower bending angle values for black holes in galactic nuclei.