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Astrophysical black holes are likely to be surrounded by various forms of matter in the form of disks or halos. While a number of studies have examined the impact of an environment on the lensing of light or gravitational waves from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-19 Gerasimos Kouniatalis , Arthur G. Suvorov , Kyriakos Destounis

We investigate gravitational lensing by \textit{special} Buchdahl inspired metric with the Buchdahl parameter $\tilde{k}$. In strong deflection limit, we derive the deflection angle analytically for the light rays that diverge as photons…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-08 Shafia Maryam , Mubasher Jamil , Mustapha Azreg-Aïnou , Zoe C S Chan

The deflection of light's trajectory has been studied in many different spacetime geometries in weak and strong gravity, including the special cases of spherically symmetric static and spinning black holes. It is also well known that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-22 S. V. Iyer

Strong field gravitational lensings are dramatically disparate from those in the weak field by representing relativistic images due to light winds one to infinity loops around a lens before escaping. We study such a lensing caused by a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-11 Shan-Shan Zhao , Yi Xie

We derive the deflection angle up to $O(m^2a)$ due to a Kerr gravitational lens with mass $m$ and specific angular momentum $a$. It is known that at the linear order in $m$ and $a$ the Kerr lens is observationally equivalent to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Hideki Asada , Masumi Kasai , Tatsuya Yamamoto

The inner regions of active galaxies host the most extreme and energetic phenomena in the universe including, relativistic jets, supermassive black hole binaries, and recoiling supermassive black holes. However, many of these sources cannot…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-19 Anna Barnacka

We present firstly equation of motion for the photon coupled to Weyl tensor in a Kerr black hole spacetime and then study further the corresponding strong gravitational lensing. We find that black hole rotation makes propagation of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-19 Songbai Chen , Shangyun Wang , Yang Huang , Jiliang Jing , Shiliang Wang

In this paper, we study massless braneworld black holes as gravitational lenses. We find the weak and the strong deflection limits for the deflection angle, from which we calculate the positions and magnifications of the images. We compare…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-10-25 Ernesto F. Eiroa , Carlos M. Sendra

Gravitational-wave (GW) lensing can encode valuable information about the properties of the intervening lens, but most existing studies remain restricted to the small-deflection, weak-field regime. To bridge this crucial gap, this work…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-30 M. V. S. Saketh , Rajes Ghosh , Anuj Mishra

When light from a distant source object, like a galaxy or a supernova, travels towards us, it is deflected by massive objects that lie on its path. When the mass density of the deflecting object exceeds a certain threshold, multiple, highly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-06 Jenny Wagner

We calculate the angles of deflection of high speed particles projected in an arbitrary direction into the Kerr gravitational field. This is done by first calculating the light-like boost of the Kerr gravitational field in an arbitrary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Barrabès , P. A. Hogan

We study the influence of phantom fields on strong field gravitational lensing. Supposing that the gravitational field of the supermassive central object of the Galaxy is described by a phantom black hole metric, we estimate the numerical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-11-14 Chikun Ding , Changqing Liu , Yuanyuan Xiao , Liqun Jiang , Rong-Gen Cai

Light rays passing very close to black holes may wind several times before escaping. For any given electromagnetic source around the black hole, a distant observer would thus observe two infinite sequences of images on either side of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-27 Fabio Aratore , Valerio Bozza

Recent observations indicate that many if not all galaxies host massive central black holes. In this paper we explore the influence of black holes on the lensing properties. We model the lens as an isothermal ellipsoid with a finite core…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Mao , H. J. Witt , L. V. E. Koopmans

We study the gravitational lensing by a Kerr-Sen Black Hole arising in heterotic string theory. A closed form expression for the bending angle of light in equatorial plane of Kerr-Sen Black Hole is derived as a function of impact parameter,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-24 Rashmi Uniyal , Hemwati Nandan , Philippe Jetzer

In this second paper, we develop an analytical theory of quasi-equatorial lensing by Kerr black holes. In this setting we solve perturbatively our general lens equation with displacement given in Paper I, going beyond weak-deflection Kerr…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Amir B. Aazami , Charles R. Keeton , A. O. Petters

Motivated by (i) more and more interest in strong gravitational lensing by supermassive black holes due to the achievement of EHT observations, (ii) the ongoing popular topic on the possibility of Lorentz symmetry being broken in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-01 Xiao-Mei Kuang , Ali Övgün

We investigate the impact of dark matter halos on the gravitational lensing produced by electrically charged, spherically symmetric black holes in the strong-field regime. The study focuses on two dark matter models: the Universal Rotation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-17 Niyaz Uddin Molla , Himanshu Chaudhary , Salvatore Capozziello , Farruh Atamurotov , G. Mustafa , Ujjal Debnath

Strong field gravitational lensing in the context of both higher spacetime dimensions and in presence of Kalb-Ramond field have been studied. After developing proper analytical tools to analyze the problem we consider gravitational lensing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-01 Sumanta Chakraborty , Soumitra SenGupta

We analyze gravitational lensing and their cast images from thin-disks in shadow observations of a family of spherically symmetric black hole solutions previously derived within the framework of Loop Quantum Gravity. Such black holes depend…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-10 David J. Patiño Pomares , Diego Rubiera-Garcia