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We study black hole imaging in the context of geometrically thick accretion disks in Schwarzschild spacetime. By decomposing the emitting region into a set of one-dimensional luminous segments, each characterized by its inclination angle…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-16 Zi-Liang Wang

The characteristics and images of Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton (EMD) black holes are examined in this paper, focusing on their effective potential, photon trajectories, and images with thin and thick accretion disks. We found that the shadow…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-12 Gang Chen , Sen Guo , Jia-Shuo Li , Yu-Xiang Huang , Li-Fang Li , Peng Xu

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 examine the gyration motion of a charged particle, viewed from a reference observer falling along the Z axis into a Schwarzschild black hole. It is assumed that the magnetic field is constant and uniform along the Z axis, and that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Yasufumi Kojima , Kentaro Takami

Gravitational lensing is a well known phenomenon predicted by the General Theory of Relativity. It is now a well-developed observational technique in astronomy and is considered to be a fundamental tool for acquiring information about the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 F. De Paolis , A. Geralico , G. Ingrosso , A. A. Nucita , A. Qadir

This letter presents, for the first time, direct constraints on the black-hole-to-halo-mass relation using weak gravitational lensing measurements. We construct type I and type II Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) samples from the Sloan Digital…

We consider a static, axially symmetric spacetime describing the superposition of a Schwarzschild black hole (BH) with a thin and heavy accretion disk. The BH-disk configuration is a solution of the Einstein field equations within the Weyl…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-17 Pedro V. P. Cunha , Nelson A. Eiró , Carlos A. R. Herdeiro , José P. S. Lemos

Using a recently found black hole solution in the framework of the Poincar{\'e} gauge theory of gravity, we study gravitational lensing for a system where the lens is a static spherically symmetric black hole. By analyzing the equations of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-19 Saboura Sadat Zamani , Siamak Akhshabi

We study the gravi-dilaton field of a Schwarzschild black hole pierced by a thin cosmic string in both massless and massive dilatonic gravity. We conclude that in the thin vortex approximation the string's spacetime is asymptotically flat…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Caroline Santos

Black holes acting as gravitational lenses produce, besides the primary and secondary weak field images, two infinite sets of relativistic images. These images can be studied using the strong field limit, an analytic method based on a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Ernesto F. Eiroa

Black bounces are compact objects that combine the structures of regular black holes with those of wormholes. These spacetimes exhibit a rich causal structure and can differ fundamentally from usual black holes. In this work, we study the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-23 T. M. Crispim , Marcos V. de S. Silva , G. Alencar , Diego Sáez-Chillón Gómez

The images of supermassive black holes surrounded by optically-thin, radiatively-inefficient accretion flows, like those observed with the Event Horizon Telescope, are characterized by a bright ring of emission surrounding the black-hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-01 Ziri Younsi , Dimitrios Psaltis , Feryal Özel

We propose the back reaction to the charged galactic wormhole spacetime based on Yoshiaki Sofue's exponential dark matter density profile to find exact solutions. The charges act as an additional component to the static wormhole, which is…

General Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Md Khalid Hossain , Farook Rahaman

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

This paper investigates the use of gravitational time delays of macro-lenses to constrain a possible photon mass. The time delay between the 2 compact images of a source of massive photons is computed. Explicit expressions are given for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-06 J-F. Glicenstein

We have investigated tidal forces and geodesic deviation motion in the 4D-Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet spacetime. Our results show that tidal force and geodesic deviation motion depend sharply on the sign of Gauss-Bonnet coupling constant.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-13 Jing Li , Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing

Tidal disruption by massive black holes is a phenomenon, during which a large part of gravitational energy can be released on a very short time-scale. The time-scales and energies involved during X-ray and IR flares observed in Galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-04-17 U. Kostic , A. Gomboc , A. Cadez , M. Calvani

In modern hierarchical theories of structure formation, rich clusters of galaxies form at the vertices of a weblike distribution of matter, with filaments emanating from them to large distances and with smaller objects forming and draining…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Christopher A. Metzler , Martin White , Chris Loken

Both massless light ray and objects with nonzero mass experience trajectory bending in a gravitational field. In this work the bending of trajectories of massive objects in a Schwarzschild spacetime and the corresponding gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-02 Xionghui Liu , Nan Yang , Junji Jia

The gravitational lensing of supermassive black holes surrounded by dark matter halo has attracted a great number of interests in recent years. However, many studies employed simplified dark matter density models, which makes it very hard…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-25 Yi-Gao Liu , Chen-Kai Qiao , Jun Tao