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This paper explores the unique observational signatures of accretion onto a Janis-Newman-Winicour (JNW) strongly naked singularity, particularly in the absence of a photon sphere. The surrounding spacetime of such a singularity exhibits…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-20 Zeqian Zhang

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 work, gravitational lensing in the weak and strong field limits is investigated for black hole spacetime within the framework of Hu-Sawicki $f(R)$ gravity. We employ the Ishihara et al. approach for weak lensing and adopt Bozza's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-03 Gayatri Mohan , Nashiba Parbin , Umananda Dev Goswami

In this article, we investigate asymptotically flat non-exotic traversable wormhole geometries within the King and Dekel-Zhao dark matter halos in the framework of $f(R, L_m)$ gravity. Two functional forms of the theory are considered:…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-21 Susmita Sarkar , Nayan Sarkar , Abdelmalek Bouzenada , Farook Rahaman

Just like light, gravitational waves (GWs) are deflected and magnified by gravitational fields as they propagate through the Universe. However, their low frequency, phase coherence and feeble coupling to matter allow for distinct lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-29 Giovanni Tambalo , Miguel Zumalacárregui , Liang Dai , Mark Ho-Yeuk Cheung

In this letter, we investigate the strong gravitational lensing effects around two classes of rotating regular black holes, which behave as non-singular Minkowski core at the center. Starting from the null geodesic in the equatorial plane…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-07 Mingyu Guo , Menghe Wu , Hong Guo , Xiaomei Kuang , Fuyao Liu

We present a framework that reformulates gravitational lensing as an optical phenomenon governed by an effective refractive index, enabling exploration of modified gravity theories using undergraduate-level mathematics and optics. After…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-09 Romy Hanang Setya Budhi

Static, spherically symmetric black holes and compact objects without an event horizon have unstable (stable) circular orbits of a light called photon (antiphoton) sphere. A Damour-Solodukhin wormhole has been suggested as a simple black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-27 Naoki Tsukamoto

Recently, we proposed a novel charged wormhole spacetime based on Yoshiaki Sofue's exponential dark matter density profile, referred to as the Charged Galactic Wormhole. Our previous work explored the deflection of light and massive…

General Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Md Khalid Hossain , Farook Rahaman

Gravitational lensing deflects light. A single lens deflector can only shear images, but cannot induce rotations. Multiple lens planes can induce rotations. Such rotations can be observed in quadruply imaged sources, and can be used to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-19 Ue-Li Pen , Shude Mao

Since the general relativistic approach requires exotic matter with negative energy density, constructing wormholes containing realistic matter is a crucial challenge. Therefore, extending General Relativity to non-minimal cases may be an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-15 Özcan Sert

Spherically symmetric black holes produce, by strong field lensing, two infinite series of relativistic images, formed by light rays winding around the black hole at distances comparable to the gravitational radius. In this paper, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-02-23 V. Bozza

We report the observation and confirmation of the first group- and cluster-scale strong gravitational lensing systems found in Dark Energy Survey (DES) data. Through visual inspection of data from the Science Verification (SV) season, we…

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

We study the time delay between successive relativistic images in gravitational lensing as a possible discriminator between various collapse end states and hence as a probe of cosmic censorship. Specifically we consider both black hole and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-01-10 Satyabrata Sahu , Mandar Patil , D. Narasimha , Pankaj S. Joshi

In this paper, we investigate the microlensing effects of wormholes associated to black hole spacetimes. Specifically, we work on three typical wormholes (WH): Schwarzschild WH, Kerr WH, and RN WH, as well as their blackhole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-09 Ke Gao , Lei-Hua Liu , Mian Zhu

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

By using a method improved with a generalized optical metric, the deflection of light for an observer and source at finite distance from a lens object in a stationary, axisymmetric and asymptotically flat spacetime has been recently…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-08 Toshiaki Ono , Asahi Ishihara , Hideki Asada

Compact objects with a light sphere such as black holes and wormholes can reflect light rays like a mirror. This gravitational lensing phenomenon is called retrolensing and it is an interesting tool to survey dark and compact objects with a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-24 Naoki Tsukamoto , Yungui Gong

In this paper, we obtain a relation between the high-energy absorption cross section and the strong gravitational lensing for a static and spherically symmetric black hole. It provides us a possible way to measure the high-energy absorption…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-16 Shao-Wen Wei , Yu-Xiao Liu , Heng Guo