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We examine the shadow cast by a Kerr black hole, focusing on constraints on photons corresponding to different shadow boundaries. The photons are related to different orbital ranges and impact parameter values, creating a map of the shadow…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-24 D. Pugliese , Z. Stuchlık

In this paper, light propagation in a pressure-free non-magnetized plasma on Kerr spacetime is considered, which is a continuation of our previous study [Phys. Rev. D 95, 104003 (2017)]. It is assumed throughout that the plasma density is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-20 Volker Perlick , Oleg Yu. Tsupko

We study gravitational lensing in strong-field limit by a static spherically symmetric black hole in quartic scalar field Horndeski gravity having additional hair parameter $q$, evading the no-hair theorem. We find an increase in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-01 Jitendra Kumar , Shafqat Ul Islam , Sushant G. Ghosh

Light rays passing very close to a black hole may experience very strong deviations. Two geometries were separately considered in the recent literature: a source behind the black hole (standard gravitational lensing); a source in front of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Bozza , L. Mancini

In this article we study gravitational lensing by non-rotating and asymptotically flat black holes in Horndeski theory. By adopting the strong deflection limit, we calculate the deflection angle, from which we obtain the positions and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-27 Javier Badía , Ernesto F. Eiroa

We have studied numerically the shadows of a non-Kerr rotating compact object with quadrupole mass moment, which belongs to Manko-Novikov family. The non-integrable photon motion caused by quadrupole mass moment affects sharply the shadow…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-29 Mingzhi Wang , Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing

In this manuscript, we provide a comprehensive study of gravitational lensing by dark compact objects predicted by a Modified Gravity (MOG) based on the Scalar-Vector-Tensor action, and the aim is to analyze new insights into the nature of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-07 Nagina Rehman , Zoe C. S. Chan , Mubasher Jamil , Mustapha Azreg-Aïnou

We study gravitational lensing by a Reissner-Nordstrom (RN) black hole in the weak field limit. We obtain the basic equations for the deflection angle and time delay and find analytical expressions for the positions and amplifications of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Sereno

The deflection of light in the strong field limit is an important test for alternative theories of gravity. However, solutions for the metric that allow for analytic computations are not always available. We implement a hybrid…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-09 Javier Chagoya , C. Ortiz , Benito Rodríguez , Armando A. Roque

We explore the universal symmetries of the black hole photon ring in a wide range of non-Kerr spacetimes, including the Kerr-Newman, Kerr-Sen, Kerr-Bardeen, and Kerr-Hayward metrics. The demagnification exponent ($\gamma$) controls the size…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-27 Rahul Kumar Walia , Prashant Kocherlakota , Dominic O. Chang , Kiana Salehi

In this study, we investigate the geodesic structure, gravitational lensing/mirroring phenomena, and scalar perturbations of deformed AdS-Schwarzschild black holes with global monopoles, incorporating both ordinary and phantom…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-18 Faizuddin Ahmed , Ahmad Al-Badawi , İzzet Sakallı

The gravitational lensing effects in the weak gravitational field by exotic lenses have been investigated intensively to find nonluminous exotic objects. Gravitational lensing based on 1/r^n fall-off metric, as a one-parameter model that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-09-25 Naoki Tsukamoto , Takao Kitamura , Koki Nakajima , Hideki Asada

The interest in the implications that astrophysical observations have for the understanding of the structure of black holes has grown since the first detection of gravitational waves. Many arguments that are put forward in order to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-31 Anna Zulianello , Raúl Carballo-Rubio , Stefano Liberati , Stefano Ansoldi

Near a gravitating compact object, massive particles traveling along timelike geodesics are gravitationally deflected similarly to light. In this paper, we study the deflection angles of these particles in the strong deflection limit. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-12 Fabiano Feleppa , Valerio Bozza , Oleg Yu. Tsupko

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 propose a new test of strong-field general relativity (GR) based on the universal interferometric signature of the black hole photon ring. The photon ring is a narrow ring-shaped feature, predicted by GR but not yet observed, that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-09 Samuel E. Gralla , Alexandru Lupsasca , Daniel P. Marrone

In this paper, we first analyze the horizon structure of the Van der Waals(VdW) black hole and then investigate its shadow in the absence of a plasma medium as well as the presence of a homogeneous plasma medium. We find that both the Van…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-06 Niyaz Uddin Molla , Ujjal Debnath

We investigate the impact of higher-curvature corrections on black-hole observables within a perturbative $f(R, G)$ gravity framework. Working in a static, spherically symmetric spacetime, we construct leading-order deviations from the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-26 G. G. L. Nashed

We consider the metric exterior to a charged dilaton black hole in a de Sitter universe. We study the motion of a test particle in this metric. Conserved quantities are identified and the Hamilton-Jacobi method is employed for the solutions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Nupur Mukherjee , A. S. Majumdar

In this paper, the shadows cast by non-rotating and rotating modified gravity black holes are investigated. In addition to the black hole spin parameter $a$ and the inclination angle $\theta$ of observer, another parameter $\alpha$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-08 Hui-Min Wang , Yu-Meng Xu , Shao-Wen Wei