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We study scattering of polarized light by a rotating (Kerr) black hole of the mass M and the angular momentum J. In order to keep trace of the polarization dependence of photon trajectories one can use the following dimensionless parameter:…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 Valeri P. Frolov , Andrey A. Shoom

We investigate the gravitational lensing effects of a static spherically symmetric black hole (BH) within the framework of the revised Deser-Woodard (D-W) nonlocal gravity. By analyzing the deflection angle in both the weak and strong field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-26 Haida Li , Xiangdong Zhang

When light from a distant source object, like a galaxy or a supernova, travels towards us, it is deflected by massive objects that lie on its path. When the mass density of the deflecting object exceeds a certain threshold, multiple, highly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-06 Jenny Wagner

In this paper, we investigate the strong gravitational lensing effects and optical appearances around a spherically symmetric regular black hole, whose metric is derived from a non-singular collapsing dust ball model in asymptotically safe…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-02 Xiao-Jun Gao

We have investigated the geodetic precession and the strong gravitational lensing in the slowly-rotating black hole in the dynamical Chern-Simons modified gravity theory. We present the formulas of the orbital period $T$ and the geodetic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-21 Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing

In this paper, the weak gravitational lensing phenomenon for a recently proposed rotating regular black hole with an asymptotically Minkowski core characterized by a sub-Planckian curvature was investigated. Using the Gauss-Bonnet Theorem,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-01 Miles Angelo P. Sodejana

The gravitational deflection of light signals restricted in the polar-axis plane of a moving Kerr-Newman (KN) black hole with a constant velocity along the polar axis is studied within the second post-Minkowskian (PM) approximation. For…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-08 Xuan Wang , Wenbin Lin , Bo Yang , Guansheng He

Photon circular orbits, an extreme case of light deflection, are among the hallmarks of black holes and are known to play a central role in a variety of phenomena related to these extreme objects. The very existence of such orbits when…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-06-28 Kostas Glampedakis , George Pappas

In this paper we investigate the strong gravitational lensing with Gauss-Bonnet gravity. By considering the logarithmic term for deflection angle, we obtain the deflection angle $\hat\alpha$ and corresponding parameters $\bar{a}$ and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-17 J. Sadeghi , H. Vaez

This paper investigates off-equatorial plane deflections and gravitational lensing of both null signals and massive particles in Kerr spacetime in the weak deflection limit, with the finite distance effect of the source and detector taken…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-24 Tingyuan Jiang , Xiaoge Xu , Junji Jia

The deflection of light rays near gravitating objects can be influenced not only by gravity itself but also by the surrounding medium. Analytical studies of such effects are possible within the geometrical optics approximation, where the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-03 Christian Pfeifer , Barbora Bezděková , Oleg Yu. Tsupko

We investigate the polarized images of an equatorial emitting ring around a Konoplya-Zhidenko rotating non-Kerr black hole, which introduces an additional deformation parameter. The deformation parameter $\eta$ allows the spin parameter to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-30 Xin Qin , Fen Long , Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing

We demonstrate that the location of a stable photon sphere (PS) in a compact object is not always an edge such as the inner boundary of a black hole shadow, whereas the location of an unstable PS is known to be the shadow edge notably in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-08 Ryuya Kudo , Hideki Asada

In this paper, we use a suitable conformal rescaling to construct static and rotating regular black holes in conformal massive gravity. The new metric is characterized by the mass $M$, the "scalar charge" $Q$, the angular momentum parameter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-18 Kimet Jusufi , Mubasher Jamil , Hrishikesh Chakrabarty , Qiang Wu , Cosimo Bambi , Anzhong Wang

A Kerr black hole with mass parameter m and angular momentum parameter a acting as a gravitational lens gives rise to two images in the weak field limit. We study the corresponding magnification relations, namely the signed and absolute…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 M. C. Werner , A. O. Petters

Extreme gravitational lensing refers to the bending of photon trajectories that pass very close to supermassive black holes and that cannot be described in the conventional weak deflection limit. A complete analytical description of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-11 V. Bozza

In this paper, we delve into the gravitational lensing and photon trajectories in the vicinity of non-asymptotically flat black hole spacetimes within the framework of dRGT massive gravity, incorporating a non-zero graviton mass. We assume…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-16 Haximjan Abdusattar , Yu-Xuan Han , Abdujappar Rusul , Shi-Bei Kong

The gravitational deflection of massless and massive particles, both with and without spin, has been extensively studied. This paper discusses the lensing of a particle which oscillates between two interaction eigenstates. The deflection…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-25 J-F. Glicenstein

We study the exact evolution of the orbital angular momentum of a massive particle in the gravitational field of a Kerr black hole. We show analytically that, for a wide class of orbits, the angular momentum's hodograph is always close to a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-11 Vladimir N. Strokov , Shant Khlghatyan

In this paper we have investigated the gravitational lensing phenomenon in the strong field regime for a regular, charged, static, non-linear black hole having a electrodynamics source. We have obtained the angle of deflection and compared…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-09 Tuhina Manna , Farook Rahaman , Sabiruddin Molla , Jhumpa Bhadra , Hasrat Hussain Shah