Regular black holes with Minkowskian cores: causal structure and observational degeneracy

Abstract

We construct a new family of asymptotically flat static and rotating regular black holes characterized by a Minkowskian core and a finite two-horizon structure. The solutions are obtained within the framework of gravitational decoupling and provide an analytically tractable realization of non-singular black hole geometries with a regular interior and well-defined asymptotic properties. We investigate the optical appearance of the rotating spacetime through shadow observables and ray-traced images of geometrically thin, optically thin accretion disks. Despite the substantial differences between the interior geometry of these solutions and that of singular black holes, their optical signatures are found to remain remarkably close to those of Schwarzschild and Kerr spacetimes with the same asymptotic parameters. Our results show that markedly different black hole interiors may lead to nearly indistinguishable optical appearances, highlighting the challenges of probing the internal structure of compact objects using current shadow and imaging observations.