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Gravitational lens models with negative convergence(surface mass density projected onto the lens plane) inspired by modified gravity theories, exotic matter and energy have been recently discussed in such a way that a static and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-16 Koji Izumi , Chisaki Hagiwara , Koki Nakajima , Takao Kitamura , Hideki Asada

Gravitational waves (GWs) are lensed by matter, offering a unique probe of both the large-scale structure of the Universe and the fundamental properties of GW propagation. GWs can also be affected by wave optics effects when their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-03 Juno C. L. Chan , Conor Dyson , Matilde Garcia , Jaime Redondo-Yuste , Luka Vujeva

Gravitational lensing caused by the gravitational field of massive objects has been studied and acknowledged for a long period of time. In this paper, however, we propose a different mechanism where the bending of light stems from the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-21 O. Gurtug , M. Mangut , M. Halilsoy

We study strong gravitational lensing due to a Schwarzschild black hole. Apart from the primary and the secondary images we find a sequence of images on both sides of the optic axis; we call them {\em relativistic images}. These images are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. S. Virbhadra , George F. R. Ellis

Whereas considerable effort has been afforded in understanding the properties of galaxies, a full physical picture, connecting their baryonic and dark-matter content, super-massive black holes, and (metric) theories of gravity, is still…

The existence of a massive black hole in the center of the Milky Way, coinciding with the radio source Sgr A*, is being established on more and more solid ground. In principle, this black hole, acting as a gravitational lens, is able to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Valerio Bozza , Luigi Mancini

We investigate the gravitational lensing scenario due to Schwarzschild-like black hole surrounded by quintessence (Kiselev black hole). We work for the special case of Kiselev black hole where we take the state parameter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-21 Azka Younas , Mubasher Jamil , Sebastian Bahamonde , Saqib Hussain

In this paper, we use the strong field limit approach to investigate the gravitational lensing properties of braneworld black holes. Applying this method to the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy, the lensing observables…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Richard Whisker

In this paper, gravitational lensing scenario due to the R-charged black hole of five dimensional supergravity investigated. We study the effective potential of traveling photons near the R-charged black hole and find some stable orbits for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-13 J. Naji

In this work, we study the gravitational lensing of Euler-Heisenberg black hole surrounded by perfect fluid dark matter. This kind of black hole solution enables us to investigate the nontrivial interplay between the dark matter effects and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-29 Ping Su , Chen-Kai Qiao

In this article, we study regular scale-dependent black holes as gravitational lenses. We obtain the deflection angle in the strong deflection limit, from which we calculate the positions and the magnifications of the relativistic images.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-11 Carlos M. Sendra

We study the strong gravitational lensing due to the Kerr black holes with angular momentum $a$ and the Kerr-Newman black holes with additional charge $Q$. We first derive the analytical expressions of the deflection angles of light rays…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-21 Tien Hsieh , Da-Shin Lee , Chi-Yong Lin

Every astrophysical object (dark or not) is a gravitational lens, as well as a receiver/observer of the light from sources lensed by other objects in its neighborhood. For a given pair of source and lens, there is a thin on-axis tubelike…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 Yun Wang , Edwin L. Turner

Light rays passing very close to a black hole may experience very strong deviations. Two geometries were separately considered in the recent literature: a source behind the black hole (standard gravitational lensing); a source in front of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Bozza , L. Mancini

Adopting the strong field limit approach, we investigated the strong gravitational lensing in a Brane-World black hole, which means that the strong field limit coefficients and the deflection angle in this gravitational field are obtained.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-30 GuoPing Li , Biao Cao , Zhongwen Feng , Xiaotao Zu

For a given source and lens pair, there is a thin on-axis tube-like volume behind the lens in which the radiation flux from the source is greatly increased due to gravitational lensing. Any objects (such as dust grains) which pass through…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Yun Wang , Edwin L. Turner

This paper investigates the novel phenomenon of gravitational lensing experienced by gravitational waves traveling past a Schwarzschild black hole perturbed by a specific, first-order, polar gravitational wave. We utilize the Gauss-Bonnet…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-23 Reggie C. Pantig , Ali Övgün

We investigate the strong gravitational lensing in a Kaluza-Klein black hole with squashed horizons. We find the size of the extra dimension imprints in the radius of the photon sphere, the deflection angle, the angular position and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Yue Liu , Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing

Weak gravitational lensing is a unique probe of the dark side of the universe: it provides a direct way to map the distribution of dark matter around galaxies, clusters of galaxies and on cosmological scales. Furthermore, the measurement of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-07 Henk Hoekstra , Bhuvnesh Jain

Compact objects with magnetic dipole are considered as gravitational lenses. The presence of strong magnetic field near the photon sphere can affect the trajectory of light. We compute the deflection angle near the photon sphere on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-03 Jin Young Kim