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We have investigated the strong gravitational lensing for the photons coupled to Weyl tensor in a Schwarzschild black hole spacetime. We find that in the four-dimensional black hole spacetime the equation of motion of the photons depends…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-05 Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing

We investigate gravitational lensing by a primary photon sphere which is a sphere filled with unstable circular light orbits, and by a secondary photon sphere on a wormhole throat in a black-bounce spacetime which is suggested in [F. S. N.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-15 Naoki Tsukamoto

Gravitational lensing is the phenomenon arising when light rays are deflected by the mass between the source and the observer. Largely magnified and highly distorted images of background galaxies are formed by these angular deflections if…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-02 Atınç Çağan Şengül

In a recent paper [Ruffa] it was proposed that the massive black hole at the Galactic center may act as a gravitational lens focusing gravitational wave energy to the Earth. Considering the gravitational wave signal emitted by galactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. De Paolis , G. Ingrosso , A. A. Nucita , A. Qadir

Gravitational waves (GWs) from distant sources such as inspiralling and merging stellar-mass compact binaries, intermediate-mass and supermassive-binary-black-hole can be gravitationally lensed by intervening objects, ranging from stars and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-19 Zhiwei Chen , Youjun Lu

The strong gravitational lensing of a regular and rotating magnetic black hole in non-minimally coupled Einstein-Yang-Mills theory is studied. We find that, with the increase of any characteristic parameters of this black hole, such as the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-16 Ruanjing Zhang , Jiliang Jing , Zhipeng Peng , Qihong Huang

Gravitational lensing is the deflection of light rays due to the gravity of intervening masses. This phenomenon is observed in a variety of scales and configurations, involving any non-uniform mass such as planets, stars, galaxies, clusters…

In this paper we study gravitational lensing by STU black holes. We considered extremal limit of two special cases of zero-charged and one-charged black holes, and obtain the deflection angle. We find that the black hole charge increases…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-01-03 Hassan Saadat

Binary black holes have been in limelight off late due to the detection of gravitational waves from coalescing compact binaries in the events GW150914 and GW151226. In this paper we study gravitational lensing by the binary black holes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-01-25 Mandar Patil , Priti Mishra , D. Narasimha

Weak gravitational lensing of distant galaxies can probe the total projected mass distribution of foreground gravitational structures on all scales and has been used successfully to map the projected mass distribution of rich intermediate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Van Waerbeke , Y. Mellier

Accelerating supermassive black holes, connected to cosmic strings, could contribute to structure formation and get captured by galaxies if their velocities are small. This would mean that the acceleration of these black holes is small too.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-20 Amjad Ashoorioon , Mohammad Bagher Jahani Poshteh , Robert B. Mann

In this paper we apply the strong deflection limit approach to investigate the gravitational lensing phenomena beyond general relativity. This is accomplished by considering the lensing effects related to black hole solutions that emerge…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-13 R. T. Cavalcanti , A. Goncalves da Silva , Roldao da Rocha

If it is hypothesised that there is no dark matter then some alternative gravitational theory must take the place of general relativity (GR) on the largest scales. Dynamical measurements can be used to investigate the nature of such a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Daniel J. Mortlock , Edwin L. Turner

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

Retrolensing is a gravitational lensing effect in which light emitted by a background source is deflected by a black hole and redirected toward the observer after undergoing nearly complete loops around the black hole. In this context, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-12 L. C. N. Santos , F. M. da Silva , C. R. Muniz , V. B. Bezerra

Massive structures, such as galaxies, act as strong gravitational lenses on background sources. When the background source is a quasar, several lensed images are seen, as magnified or de-magnified versions of the same object. The detailed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Courbin , P. Saha , P. L. Schechter

Of order one in 10^3 quasars and high-redshift galaxies appears in the sky as multiple images as a result of gravitational lensing by unrelated galaxies and clusters that happen to be in the foreground. While the basic phenomenon is a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-10 Prasenjit Saha , Dominique Sluse , Jenny Wagner , Liliya L. R. Williams

In the present work, we investigate the gravitational lensing effects of two quantum-modified black hole models recently proposed in effective quantum gravity. The light deflection angles are calculated for both the weak-field and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-20 Hao Liu , Meng-Yun Lai , Xiao-Yin Pan , Hyat Huang , De-Cheng Zou

Discovery of strongly-lensed gravitational wave (GW) sources will unveil binary compact objects at higher redshifts and lower intrinsic luminosities than is possible without lensing. Such systems will yield unprecedented constraints on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-07 G. P. Smith , C. P. L. Berry , M. Bianconi , W. M. Farr , M. Jauzac , R. J. Massey , J. Richard , A. Robertson , K. Sharon , A. Vecchio , J. Veitch

This work aims to explore the gravitational consequences of a recently proposed black hole solution presented in the literature [Phys. Dark Univ. 50 (2025) 102061]. We initiate our analyzes by taking into account the horizon structure,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-18 A. A. Araújo Filho , N. Heidari , Iarley P. Lobo