galaxies Article Ergosphere, Photon Region Structure, and the Shadow of a Rotating Charged Weyl Black Hole Mohsen Fathi 1,* , Marco Olivares 2 and José R. Villanueva 1 1 Instituto de Física y Astronomía, Universidad de Valparaíso, Avenida Gran Bretaña 1111, Valparaíso 2340000, Chile;
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[email protected] Abstract: In this paper, we explore the photon region and the shadow of the rotating counterpart of a static charged Weyl black hole, which has been previously discussed according to null and time-like geodesics. The rotating black hole shows strong sensitivity to the electric charge and the spin parameter, and its shadow changes from being oblate to being sharp by increasing in the spin parameter. Comparing the calculated vertical angular diameter of the shadow with that of M87*, we found that the latter may possess about 1036 protons as its source of electric charge, if it is a rotating charged Weyl black hole. A complete derivation of the ergosphere and the static limit is also presented. Keywords: Weyl gravity; black hole shadow; ergosphere PACS: 04.50.-h; 04.20.Jb; 04.70.Bw; 04.70.-s; 04.80.Cc Citation: Fathi, M.; Olivares, M.; Villanueva, J.R. Ergosphere, Photon Region Structure, and the Shadow of 1. Introduction a Rotating Charged Weyl Black Hole. The recent black hole imaging of the shadow of M87*, performed by the Event Horizon Galaxies 2021, 9, 43.