Determination of the metric of a Schwarzschild black hole surrounded by a halo of dark matter

Abstract

Following the landmark acquisition of the first image of a black hole, systems comprising a black hole enveloped by a dark matter halo have attracted considerable attention. This work implements a novel method to analyze the structure of a system composed of a Schwarzschild black hole and a dark matter halo modeled as an anisotropic fluid, while ensuring that the proposed metric constitutes an exact solution of the Einstein field equations. Numerical results show that the connection between the temporal and radial metric functions preserves an inverse relationship, namely $A(r) \approx 1/B(r)$. Furthermore, we analytically demonstrate that the resulting functions satisfy $A(r)B(r) = 1 + \mathcal{O}(10^{-6})$, in excellent agreement with the numerical findings. In addition, the Einstein equations imply that the variation of the product $A(r)B(r)$ is governed by the factor $\varepsilon_h=\frac{8πGρ_0r_0^2}{c^2}$. Finally, we show that the interior Schwarzschild region and the exterior dark matter halo can be joined smoothly via a regular Darmois Israel junction, without generating any thin shell curvature steps. To assess the observational implications of the model, we compare its theoretical predictions for the pericenter precession of the S2 star and the angular size of the shadow of Sgr A*. In both cases, the predicted deviations remain within the observational uncertainties reported by the GRAVITY Collaboration and the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), respectively. These results demonstrate that the proposed black hole dark matter halo configuration is not only mathematically consistent, but also compatible with current observational constraints.