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.