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In this paper, we employ a general relativistic formalism and develop new theoretical tools that allow us to analytically express the mass and electric charge of the Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m black hole as well as its distance to a distant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-12 Gerardo Morales-Herrera , Pablo Ortega-Ruiz , Mehrab Momennia , Alfredo Herrera-Aguilar

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

Deformed Reissner-Nordstr\"om, as well as Reissner-Nordstr\"om de Sitter, solutions are obtained in a noncommutative gauge theory of gravitation. The gauge potentials (tetrad fields) and the components of deformed metric are calculated to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Chaichian , M. R. Setare , A. Tureanu , G. Zet

Chern-Simons (CS) modified gravity is an extension to general relativity (GR) in which the metric is coupled to a scalar field, resulting in modified Einstein field equations. In the dynamical theory, the scalar field is itself sourced by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-12-16 Yacine Ali-Haïmoud , Yanbei Chen

A large international effort is under way to assess the presence of a shadow in the radio emission from the compact source at the centre of our Galaxy, Sagittarius A$^*$ (Sgr A$^*$). If detected, this shadow would provide the first direct…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-03 A. A. Abdujabbarov , L. Rezzolla , B. J. Ahmedov

In this work, we have studied weak gravitational lensing effect around black hole and determine shadow radius in GUP-corrected-Schwarzschild spacetime (S-GUP) in presence of plasma environment. We started with orbits of photons around black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-29 Husanboy Hoshimov , Odil Yunusov , Farruh Atamurotov , Mubasher Jamil , Ahmadjon Abdujabbarov

The standard treatment of gravitational lensing by a point mass lens M is based on a weak-field deflection angle a = 2/x, where x = (r c^2)/(2 G M) with r the distance of closest approach to the mass of a lensed light ray. It was shown that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. O. Petters

We examine the gravitational lensing signatures of a Hayward-like regular black hole and its potential observational distinction from a Schwarzschild black hole. In the weak-field limit, the deflection angle includes a small positive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-17 Chen-Hung Hsiao , Limei Yuan , Yidun Wan

High-resolution, multi-wavelength, and time-domain observations of the Galactic centre black hole candidate, Sgr A*, allow for a direct test of contemporary accretion theory. To date, all models have assumed alignment between the accretion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Jason Dexter , P. Chris Fragile

Observational data of the Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) shadow released by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) are used to investigate eventual deviations in the black hole shadow radius, aiming to seek physics beyond the Standard Model (SM) coming…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-26 A. S. Lemos , J. A. V. Campos , F. A. Brito

The gravitational lensing of relativistic neutral massive particles caused by a Kerr-Newman black hole is investigated systematically in the weak-field limit. Based on the Kerr-Newman metric in Boyer-Lindquist coordinates, we first derive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-19 Guansheng He , Wenbin Lin

In this work we study gravitational lensing of neutrinos by Schwarzschild black holes. In particular, we analyze the case of a neutrino transient source associated with a gamma-ray burst lensed by a supermassive black hole located at the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Ernesto F. Eiroa , Gustavo E. Romero

General Relativity (GR) was proven via the direct detection of gravitational waves from the mergers of the binary black holes and binary neutron stars by the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors. These detections confirmed the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-18 S. Shankaranarayanan , Joseph P Johnson

Strong lensing of {gravitational-wave signals} can produce three types of images, denoted as Type-I, Type-II and Type-III, corresponding to the minima, saddle and maxima of the lensing potential of the lensed images. Type-II images, in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-05 Aditya Vijaykumar , Ajit Kumar Mehta , Apratim Ganguly

According to Albert Einstein, gravitation is analogous to an optical medium. Building on this idea, various definitions of the gradient-index (GRIN) medium representing curved spacetime have been proposed; often, these approaches demand…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-13 J. E. Gómez-Correa , E. Espíndola-Ramos , O. López-Cruz , S. Chávez-Cerda

We investigate gravitational lensing in the strong-field regime for a black hole in F(R) Euler Heisenberg Gravity with Rainbow gravity modifications. This black hole spacetime is characterized by the Euler Heisenberg parameter, F(R)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-21 Sayan Naskar , Niyaz Uddin Molla , Ujjal Debnath

Theories of gravity extending or modifying general relativity typically allow for black hole solutions different from the Schwarzschild/Kerr geometries. Electromagnetic observations have been used to place constraints on parametrized…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-21 Sebastian H. Völkel , Enrico Barausse

The pseudo-complex General Relativity (pc-GR) is further considered. A new projection method is proposed. It is shown, that the pc-GR introduces automatically terms into the system which can be interpreted as dark energy. The modified…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-03-01 Gunther Caspar , Thomas Schönenbach , Peter Otto Hess , Mirko Schäfer , Walter Greiner

We obtain some exact results for black holes in the Randall-Sundrum model with a single brane. We consider an extreme black hole charged with respect to a Maxwell field on the brane. The near-horizon geometry is determined. The induced…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Alexander Kaus , Harvey S. Reall

We report results from a multiwavelength campaign to measure the simultaneous spectrum of the super-massive black hole candidate Sgr A* in the Galactic Center from cm to mm-wavelengths using the VLA, BIMA, the Nobeyama 45m, and the IRAM 30m…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Heino Falcke , W. M. Goss , Hiroshi Matsuo , Peter Teuben , Jun-Hui Zhao , Robert Zylka