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Effect of gravitational wave on shadow of a Schwarzschild black hole

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Pith's one-line read A gravitational wave makes a Schwarzschild black hole's shadow oscillate, stretch, and develop fractal edges.

desk verdict Qualitatively plausible shadows under a GW perturbation, but the quantitative claims are undercut by lack of smallness control, a tetrad typo, and missing numerics. read the letter →

arxiv 1908.04527 v7 pith:ESET2GCT submitted 2019-08-13 gr-qc

Mingzhi Wang , Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing This is my paper · ORCID
classification gr-qc PACS 04.70.Bw95.30.Sf97.60.Lf
keywords blackholeshadowgravitationalwaveperturbationSchwarzschildphotongeodesicschaoticmotionfractalstructuresLegendrepolynomialsraytracing
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The reading

This paper studies the shadow cast by a Schwarzschild black hole when a special, first-order polar gravitational wave is imposed on the spacetime. It claims the shadow is no longer a static black disk: it changes periodically in time, with the pattern set by the multipole order $l$ and frequency $\sigma$ of the wave. For odd $l$ the shadow's center oscillates perpendicular to the equatorial plane, while for even $l$ the shadow stretches and squeezes vertically without moving its center. The paper also reports self-similar fractal structures along the shadow boundary, which it attributes to chaotic photon motion induced by the time-dependent perturbation. If correct, these effects give a concrete way to think about how gravitational waves would show up in black hole images.

What carries the argument

The object that carries the argument is the perturbed Schwarzschild metric $ds^2 = (g_{\mu\nu} + \epsilon h_{\mu\nu}) dx^\mu dx^\nu$, where $h_{\mu\nu}$ is a polar gravitational-wave solution whose components are products of radial functions with Legendre polynomials $P_l(\cos\theta)$ and a common factor $\cos(\sigma t)$. This perturbation makes the photon Hamiltonian explicitly time-dependent, so the null geodesic system loses integrability; the paper then uses backward ray tracing with a zero-angular-momentum observer tetrad (a local orthonormal frame carried by a non-spinning observer), projecting photon four-momenta onto sky coordinates to produce the shadows. The Legendre order $l$ and frequency $\sigma$ are the control parameters that decide whether the shadow breathes symmetrically (even $l$) or shifts asymmetrically (odd $l$), and the loss of integrability is the mechanism invoked for the fractal boundary.

What would settle it

Recompute the shadows with an explicitly orthonormal observer tetrad (enforcing $g_{\mu\nu} e^\mu_{\hat\alpha} e^\nu_{\hat\beta} = \eta_{\hat\alpha\hat\beta}$) and with an adaptive integrator at increasing resolution; if the vertical oscillation, the periodic stretch-squeeze, or the self-similar boundary layers disappear or change discontinuously under refinement, the reported effects are numerical rather than physical.

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Core claim

The central claim is that a Schwarzschild black hole illuminated by this particular polar gravitational perturbation—a solution of the Einstein equations to first order in $\epsilon$—casts a shadow whose shape and position oscillate with the wave's period. The perturbation is built from Legendre polynomials $P_l(\cos\theta)$ times $\cos(\sigma t)$, so its parity across the equatorial plane is set by $l$: odd $l$ breaks the up-down symmetry and makes the shadow center drift vertically over time, whereas even $l$ preserves the center but produces a periodic vertical stretch-and-squeeze. Because the Hamiltonian for null geodesics depends explicitly on time, photon energy is not conserved and the motion is non-integrable; the paper argues this chaotic photon dynamics is what generates the self-similar, fractal fine structure seen in the shadow boundary at sufficiently large $l$. It also quantifies the deformation with two deviation parameters, $\varepsilon_o$ and $\varepsilon_e$, and shows that the vertical direction is affected more strongly than the horizontal one.

Load-bearing premise

The results stand on the assumptions that the first-order gravitational-wave solution is a valid model of a wave around a Schwarzschild black hole and that the numerical ray tracing, including the observer tetrad used to map photon momenta to sky coordinates, faithfully reproduces the shadows—the paper gives no convergence tests to rule out numerical artifacts in the claimed fractal boundary.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • Black hole images taken at different times should show a periodic vertical shift for odd-$l$ perturbations and a periodic vertical breathing for even-$l$ perturbations, with period set by the gravitational-wave frequency $\sigma$.
  • The amplitude of both the shift and the stretch-squeeze grows with the Legendre order $l$, so higher multipole perturbations deform the shadow more strongly.
  • Because the perturbation is axisymmetric, the shadow changes only in the vertical direction, meaning the orientation of any observed time-varying deformation could point toward the symmetry axis of the perturbing wave.
  • The appearance of self-similar, fractal structure in the shadow boundary is tied to non-integrable photon motion, so resolving such fine structure would signal a non-stationary or non-separable spacetime rather than a stationary black hole.
  • Observers at different radial distances or inclination angles see different oscillation amplitudes and periodic height variations, so any comparison with observations must specify the observer's location.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the shadow's fractal edge is truly caused by chaotic photon scattering, then any sufficiently strong non-integrable perturbation of a spherically symmetric black hole—not just this particular wave—should produce similar layered boundaries, making fractal shadows a generic diagnostic of integrability breaking.
  • The perturbation diverges at infinity, so the physical regime is limited to a finite region around the black hole; a wave profile that decays at large radius would likely give cleaner, more astrophysically testable predictions, and the periodic height variation with observer distance found here could be checked against such a profile.
  • An orthonormality check of the tetrad used in the paper's Eq. (15) suggests the radial component should also carry a square root; re-running the ray tracing with the fully orthonormal tetrad would test how much of the reported vertical deformation is an artifact of the projection.
  • Future observations could try to distinguish a gravitational-wave-breathed shadow from a shadow of a stationary non-Schwarzschild black hole by checking for the combination of periodic time dependence and fractal boundary structure, which a stationary spacetime cannot produce.
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Summary. The paper studies the shadow of a Schwarzschild black hole perturbed by a particular polar gravitational-wave solution due to Xanthopoulos. The authors write down the perturbed metric, derive the null geodesic equations from a Hamiltonian, and then numerically backward-ray-trace photons from a static observer at finite radius to produce shadow images. They claim that the shadow changes periodically in time, that for odd Legendre order l the shadow center oscillates vertically while for even l the shadow alternately stretches and squeezes vertically, and that the shadow boundary contains self-similar fractal structures caused by chaotic photon motion. They also introduce two deviation parameters and study their dependence on l, σ, observer radius, and inclination angle.

Significance. If the claims were established, the paper would provide a concrete example of gravitational-wave imprints on black-hole shadows, linking non-integrability of photon motion to fractal shadow boundaries, and it would extend the recent EHT-motivated shadow literature to time-dependent perturbed spacetimes. The paper has strengths: it starts from an analytic solution of the perturbed Einstein equations, derives explicit geodesic equations, and systematically explores parameter dependence (l, σ, r_obs, θ_obs). However, as discussed below, a tetrad normalization error, an unverified smallness condition for the perturbation at the observer location, and the absence of numerical convergence details mean that the central claims are not yet supported by the presented evidence.

major comments (3)
  1. [Sec. III, Eqs. (14)-(16)] The observer tetrad is not orthonormal as written. In Eq. (14) the diagonal elements are reciprocal square roots of the metric components, but in Eq. (15) the radial component is given as p_hat^r = sqrt(f)/(1 + epsilon Y P_l cos(sigma t)) p_r, which drops the square root in the denominator; the correct expression from Eq. (14) is sqrt(f)/sqrt(1 + epsilon Y P_l cos(sigma t)) p_r. Since p_hat^r appears in the denominator of both sky coordinates in Eq. (16), this normalization error propagates into every computed shadow image and into the deviation parameters epsilon_o and epsilon_e. The authors should correct Eq. (15) and either rerun the numerical integrations with the properly normalized tetrad or demonstrate that the results are unchanged.
  2. [Sec. II, Eqs. (3)-(4), and Sec. III, Figs. 1-6] The perturbation is not small at the observer positions used in the paper. For large r, X approximately equals -sigma^2 r, so the relative perturbation in the tt component is |epsilon h_tt / g_tt| approximately epsilon sigma^2 r |P_l(cos theta)|. For the parameters of Fig. 1 (M=1, epsilon=0.05, sigma=0.5, r_obs=50, theta_obs=pi/2, l=2, P_2(0)=-1/2) this ratio is about 0.31, and it grows with r, so at r_obs=80 it is even larger. Thus the linearized solution (3) is not a small deformation in the region where the observer is placed and where the initial data for the light rays are specified. The paper states that h_mu nu diverges at infinity and is 'just used to describe the gravitational perturbation around a black hole,' but it never verifies smallness along the photon paths or at the observer. The computed shadows and the fractal claim may therefore be artifacts of a large deformation rather than genuine first-order gravitational-wave effects. The authors should either restrict to parameter values with epsilon sigma^2 r_obs |P_l| much less than 1, or explicitly reframe the spacetime as an exact toy metric and discuss the validity of the first-order interpretation.
  3. [Sec. III, ray-tracing and Fig. 4] The paper gives no numerical details for the backward ray-tracing: no integration scheme, no step-size control or tolerance, no image resolution (number of rays), and no convergence tests. This is especially problematic for the central claim of 'self-similar fractal structures' in Fig. 4, which rests on repeated zooming into the shadow boundary. Without evidence that the fine structure is converged and not numerical noise, the fractal claim is not established. The authors should provide the numerical method, resolution, and a convergence test (e.g., shadow boundary at increasing resolution or a comparison of deviation parameters with tighter tolerances).
minor comments (5)
  1. [Sec. III, Eq. (17)] The definition of the odd-l deviation parameter as 'epsilon_o = y_l(y_r)' is ambiguous; please state explicitly that epsilon_o is the y-coordinate of the leftmost (equivalently rightmost, by symmetry) point of the shadow, and explain how the extreme points are located numerically.
  2. [Sec. III, text after Eq. (16)] The paper says the images assume light from both an accretion disk and distant stars, but the simulation setup only models a thin disk with inner radius 6M and outer radius 15M; the treatment of distant stars should be clarified or removed.
  3. [Fig. 1 caption and Sec. III] The text refers to 'figure (l)' and to the blue box, but the panels of Fig. 1 are not labeled in the caption; please label the panels so the reader can identify the relevant image.
  4. [Sec. II, Eq. (6) and surrounding text] The affine parameter for null geodesics is called 'proper time tau'; for photons this is an affine parameter, not proper time, and the wording should be adjusted.
  5. [Sec. IV and throughout] There is a first-person singular sentence in the discussion ('I hope Event Horizon Telescope...'); the paper should use 'we' consistently.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: the shadow results are numerical consequences of an externally cited perturbed metric, not reductions of predictions to fitted inputs.

full rationale

The paper's derivation chain starts from a perturbed Schwarzschild metric (Eq. 1) taken from Xanthopoulos [65], an external source, with explicit functions X, Y, Z, W given in Eqs. (3)-(4). The Hamiltonian (6) and geodesic equations (9)-(12) are built directly from that metric, and the shadows are obtained by numerically integrating those equations backward from a chosen observer. The parameters epsilon, sigma, l, and robs are hand-chosen; none are fitted to the shadow data, and no deviation parameter is used to determine the metric perturbation. The periodic time dependence and the even/odd l symmetry behavior follow from the explicit periodic and axisymmetric form of the perturbation, which is a direct consequence rather than a circular construction. The fractal boundary claim is supported by the ray-tracing zoom sequence in Fig. 4, in addition to being motivated by earlier chaos literature. The paper's self-citations (e.g., Refs. [28,29]) appear in contextual lists of known fractal-shadow systems and are not load-bearing for the central derivation. The tetrad square-root discrepancy in Eq. (15) and the question of whether the perturbation remains small at robs = 50 are correctness and validity concerns, not circularity. No step was found in which an output is equivalent by definition to an input, and no self-citation chain is used to force the main result. Therefore the circularity score is 0.

Assumptions & free parameters 5 free parameters · 3 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central claims rest on the validity of the cited perturbed metric, the geodesic approximation, and the finite-distance observer construction. No new physical entity is introduced. The paper uses five hand-chosen parameters (epsilon, sigma, l, robs, theta_obs) to scan the behavior; none are fitted to data.

free parameters (5)
  • epsilon = 0.05
    Amplitude of the gravitational wave perturbation. Chosen by hand as a representative value, not fitted to any data.
  • sigma = 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5
    Frequency of the gravitational wave. Values are chosen to scan parameter dependence.
  • l = 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
    Legendre polynomial order. Even and odd values are chosen to exhibit symmetry effects.
  • robs = 20, 50, 80
    Radial coordinate of the observer. Chosen to study finite-distance effects.
  • theta_obs = 0, 45, 90 degrees
    Observer inclination angle. Chosen to show dependence on viewing geometry.
assumptions (3)
  • domain assumption The metric (1) with perturbation (3) is a particular solution of Einstein equations expanded to first order in epsilon.
    Invoked in Section II and cited to Xanthopoulos (1981). The paper does not re-derive it, so the central simulation depends on this prior result.
  • domain assumption Photon motion is governed by null geodesics of the full perturbed metric, even though the metric is only known to first order.
    The Hamiltonian (6) uses the exact inverse of the first-order perturbed metric and the geodesic equations (9-12) are derived from it. This is a standard perturbation-theory assumption but is not explicitly justified.
  • domain assumption The spacetime is not asymptotically flat, so a finite-distance observer with an orthonormal tetrad is valid for defining the shadow.
    Stated in Section III before introducing ZAMO tetrads. The choice of observer distance affects the shadow shape, and the paper explores this with robs = 20, 50, 80.

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We have studied the shadows of a Schwarzschild black hole under a special polar gravitational perturbation, which is a particular solution of Einstein equations expanded up to first order. It is shown that the black hole shadow changes periodically with time and the change of shadow depends on the Legendre polynomial order parameter l and the frequency {\sigma} of gravitational wave. For the odd order of Legendre polynomial, the center of shadow oscillates along the direction which is vertical to equatorial plane. For even l, the center of shadow does not move, but the shadow alternately stretches and squeezes with time along the vertical direction. Moreover, the presence of the gravitational wave leads to the self-similar fractal structures appearing in the boundary of the black hole shadow. We also find that this special gravitational wave has a greater influence on the vertical direction of black hole shadow.

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Figure 1. FIG. 1: The shadows of Schwarzschild black hole perturbed by [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. FIG. 2: The changes of the deviated parameter [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. FIG. 3: The changes of the deviated parameter [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: FIG. 4: (a)The amplifying image of the area within the blue bo [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_4.png]
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Figure 5. Figure 5: FIG. 5: The shadows of Schwarzschild black hole perturbed by [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_5.png]
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Figure 6. Figure 6: FIG. 6: The shadows of Schwarzschild black hole perturbed by [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_6.png]
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Figure 7. Figure 7: FIG. 7: The width [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_7.png]
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Figure 8. Figure 8: FIG. 8: The height [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_8.png]
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Figure 9. Figure 9: FIG. 9: The radius [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_9.png]
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Figure 10. Figure 10: FIG. 10: The shadows for the observers at inclination angle [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_10.png]
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Figure 11. Figure 11: FIG. 11: The shadows for the observers at inclination angle [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_11.png]
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Figure 12. Figure 12: FIG. 12: (a)The three peaks of emitted intensity of light ray [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_12.png]

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